text editor
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of text editor
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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So Mr. Simonyi built a text editor, giving rise to modern word processors like Microsoft Word.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
“The greatest builders of technology, now all in Miami, start to realize the beach is more fun than staring at a text editor for 16 hours a day. No new apps are released in 2021.”
From The Verge ● Dec. 18, 2020
To set up a Manubot project, users clone a dedicated GitHub repository to their computer and modify it using a standard programming text editor, such as Emacs or SublimeText.
From Nature ● Mar. 30, 2020
There are graph-like illustrations, circles, arrows, number lines, maps and even an irrelevant excursus about an outmoded text editor called Kedit.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
The new GNU system, the author predicted, would carry all the usual components-a text editor, a shell program to run Unix-compatible applications, a compiler, "and a few other things."
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam
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