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Text editor
A text editor is interactive software that allows a user to edit plain text, such as Notepad.123
As with any software, a text editor can be installed onto a system, but often a relatively simple text editor is included in a default installation of an operating system (OS) since editing text files is a relatively basic need for any system and since a simple text editor can be provided at relatively low cost.
As source code is text, any text editor can be used to edit code, but a source-code editor is designed with features specifically intended for editing code. Some provide integration with software development tools and provide a debugging environment.4
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H. Albert Napier; Ollie N. Rivers; Stuart Wagner (2005). Creating a Winning E-Business. Cengage Learning. p. 330. ISBN 1111796092. ↩
Peter Norton; Scott H. Clark (2002). Peter Norton’s New Inside the PC. Sams Publishing. p. 54. ISBN 0672322897. ↩
L. Gopalakrishnan; G. Padmanabhan; Sudhat Shukla (2003). Your Home PC: Making the Most of Your Personal Computer. Tata McGraw-Hill Education. p. 190. ISBN 0070473544. ↩
“The Best Free Text Editors for Windows, Linux, and Mac”. 28 April 2012. Every operating system comes with a default, basic text editor, but most of us install our own enhanced text editors to get more features. ↩
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