text editor

See also: text-editor and Texteditor

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• text-editor

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Noun

text editor (plural text editors)

1. (computing) A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.

   Coordinate term: word processor

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see text,‎ editor.
   • 1976, Robert O. Crummey, “ARSENII GLUKHOI (?-1643)”, in Joseph L[eon] Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 2 (Anikin - Bailov Rocks), Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, →ISBN, page 115:

     Between 1620 and 1640 he worked as a text editor in the Patriarchal Press in Moscow.

Translations

something used to edit text in computers

Arabic: مُحَرِّر نُصُوص m (muḥarrir nuṣūṣ) Belarusian: тэ́кставы рэда́ктар m (tékstavy redáktar) Bulgarian: те́кстов реда́ктор m (tékstov redáktor) Chinese: Mandarin: 文本編輯器 / 文本编辑器 (zh) (wénběn biānjíqì) Czech: textový editor m Danish: teksteditor c Dutch: teksteditor (nl) m Esperanto: tekstredaktilo Finnish: tekstieditori (fi), tekstinmuokkain, tekstimuokkain French: éditeur de texte (fr) German: Texteditor (de) m Greek: κειμενογράφος (el) m (keimenográfos) Icelandic: ritill (is) m, textaritill m Japanese: テキストエディタ (tekisuto edita) Korean: 문서 편집기(文書編輯機) (munseo pyeonjipgi), 텍스트 에디터 (tekseuteu editeo) Norwegian: Bokmål: teksteditor m Nynorsk: teksteditor m Polish: edytor (pl) m, edytor tekstu (pl) m Portuguese: editor de texto m Russian: те́кстовый реда́ктор (ru) m (tékstovyj redáktor) Slovak: textový editor m Spanish: editor de texto m Swedish: textredigerare (sv) c, texteditor (sv), editor (sv) Turkish: metin düzenleyici Ukrainian: те́кстовий реда́ктор m (tékstovyj redáktor)