text editor
Americannoun
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Origin of text editor
First recorded in 1970–75
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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
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
I wrote it using technology: a text editor, a browser.
From The Verge • Oct. 11, 2015
This is a text file an Internet user creates with a text editor in his home directory.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
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