Editor
1. Alternatively referred to as a text editor, an editor is a software program that allows users to create or manipulate computer files. There are several kinds of editors.
Examples of text editors:
- Notepad, Wordpad, Word = Microsoft Windows text editors and word processor.
- Writer = Text editor and word processor.
- Edit = MS-DOS text editor
- Pico = Unix / Linux or variant text editor.
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2. An editor may also refer to any other program capable of editing any other file. For example an image editor is a program capable of editing any number of different image files.
Also see: Edit mode, Image editor, Pico