text editor
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see text, editor.
- Between 1620 and 1640 he worked as a text editor in the Patriarchal Press in Moscow.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: