An editor may refer to any of the following:
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- In general, an editor refers to any program capable of editing files. Good examples are image editors, such as Adobe Photoshop, and sound editors, such as Audacity.
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- The term editor is commonly used to refer to a text editor, which is a software program that allows users to create or manipulate plain text computer files. They are often used in the field of computer programming.
Examples of text editors
- Notepad and WordPad - Microsoft Windows included text editors.
- TextEdit - Apple computer text editor.
- Emacs - Text editor for all platforms that is a very powerful text editor once you’ve learned all its commands and options.
- Vi and Vim - Other great editors primarily used with Linux but also available with multiple platforms.
- Word - Word processor for Windows and Apple computers.
- Writer - Text editor and word processor.
- Ed - An ubiquitous file editor on Unix-like systems.
- Microsoft Edit - MS-DOS text editor.
- NEdit-A graphical text editor.
- Pico - A console-based text editor.
- Notepad++ - Our favorite free text editor, Notepad++ is a powerful alternative to Windows Notepad.
- TextPad - Our favorite shareware text editor.
Tip
There are thousands of other text editors available in addition to the ones we’ve already mentioned. Perform an external search for text editors.
