text-editing
- a word derived from text editor.
Example Sentences
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Yet, most people—including myself—reacted most strongly to the text-editing feature, and rightfully so.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2022
But the proximate cause of the break, which led to Wolfe giving vent to his resentment of Perkins, had nothing to do with text-editing or with critics’ charges.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2016
The idea was that word processing would be done in pools by specialised typists working with souped-up text-editing machines.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2013
Example: text-editing software, which allows someone to write and correct manuscripts without needless retyping.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On most Unix systems and Unix-related offshoots, the primary competitor program to Emacs is vi, a text-editing program developed by former UC Berkeley student and current Sun Microsystems chief scientist, Bill Joy.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam