Category:Editor
"Editor" in general is any program that can create/change data, as opposed to "Viewers", which can only display.
This category is about Text-Editors, for working with "plain text", as opposed to "Word Processors", which handle documents with text-styles, fonts, embedded pictures etc.
A text editor is a program for editing plain text files, such as source code for programs and scripts.
There are other types of editors, specialising for certain kinds of data, eg. HTML-editors ...
Editors for Unix
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Editors for Windows
"Notepad" comes with a standard installation of MS-Windows. Better yet are "programmer's editors", such as:
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They provide many additional features, like syntax-highlightning paren-matching, extensions, and more.
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