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text editor
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computer software used to edit plain text documents
A text editor is computer software that lets you create and modify plain text documents—the simplest form of written content without any formatting like bold or italics. It matters because plain text files are universal, lightweight, and used for everything from writing code to taking notes, making text editors one of the most fundamental tools in computing.
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Encyclopedic overview
Editors like Mousepad, shown here, are often included with an operating system as a helper application for editing text files.
A text editor is interactive software that allows a user to edit plain text, such as Notepad.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “text editor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.