text-editor

See also: text editor and Texteditor

English

Noun

text-editor (plural text-editors)

1. Alternative form of text editor.
   • 1992 August 19, Hugh Anderson, “Cost-effective applications developed for Windows”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page E 4, column 4:

     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.

   • 2000 August 13, “We are Pharmacyonesource.com”, in Wisconsin State Journal, 161st year, number 226, Madison, Wis., page 131, column 4:

     This person must be able to write HTML in a text-editor.

   • 2001 January 10, Norman Lebrecht, “Grove has grown too fat”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 45,278, London, page 22:

     Sadie made way for Tyrrell, who has in turn been replaced by an on-line editor, Laura Macy.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.

   • 2003 January 7, Don Edrington, “Sometimes using the spel check is nesesary”, in The Oceanside North County Times, volume 119, number 7, Oceanside, Calif., page D-1, column 1:

     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.