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
Like many people, the majority of my work involves a desktop computing environment and a text editor.
From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2017
If you can imagine clicking on a cross-reference and having your text editor fetch the document from an FTP site you will get the idea.
From Email 101 by Goodwin, John
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