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 "Wordprocessors", 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
emacs, nano, pico, vi / vim, ...
Editors for Windows
"Notepad" comes with a standard installation of MS-Windows.
Better yet are "programmers editors", such as akelpad, emacs, geany, notepad++, vim, ...
They provide many additional features, like syntax-highlightning paren-matching, extensions, and more.
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