• Text-editor

    Full definition of text-editor

    Noun

    text-editor

    (plural text-editors)
    1. Alternative form of en.
      • 19 August 1992, Hugh Anderson, Cost-effective applications developed for Windows, Windows comes with a simple text-editor called Notepad, but the best thing you can say about it is that there’s no extra charge for it. ... Shareware text-editor is fast ... It’s WinEdit also the fastest Windows-based text-editor I’ve come across, perhaps because it’s designed to be particularly useful to notoriously impatient software programmers.
      • 13 August 2000, We are Pharmacyonesource.com, This person must be able to write HTML in a text-editor.
      • 10 January 2001, w:Norman Lebrecht, Grove has grown too fat, Sadie made way for Tyrrell, who has in turn been replaced by an on-line editor, Laura Macy. Teams of expert text-editors were supplanted by quicker, cheaper youngsters.
      • 7 January 2003, Don Edrington, Sometimes using the spel check is nesesary, All the major word-processing programs have built-in spell-checkers, but WordPad, the no-frills text-editor that comes with Windows, has no such tool. ... Once installed, the AOL “Write” function lets you compose a document just as you would with any other text-editor.
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