text editor

See also: text-editor and Texteditor

English

Alternative forms

• text-editor

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文本編輯器／文本编辑器 (zh) (wénběn biānjíqì)

• Danish: teksteditor c
• 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)
• 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)
• Spanish: editor de texto m
• Swedish: textredigerare (sv) c, texteditor (sv), editor (sv)