Usually means: Software for editing and creating text.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word text editor:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. text editor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. text editor: Collins English Dictionary
  3. text editor: Vocabulary.com
  4. text-editor: Wordnik
  5. text editor: Wiktionary
  6. text editor: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. text editor: Dictionary.com
  8. Text Editor, Text editor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. text editor: Rhymezone
  10. text editor: FreeDictionary.org
  11. text editor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. text editor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. text editor: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Text Editor: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  3. text editor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See text_editors as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (text editor)

▸ noun:  (computing) A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
▸ noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see text, editor.

Similar:
copy editor, copyreader, editor, script editor, Emacs, input method editor, edit, text file, WYSIWYG, viewer, more...

Opposite:
visual editor, WYSIWYG editor, graphical editor

Types:
Microsoft Word, Google Docs, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Pages, TextEdit, Notepad, WordPad, vi, emacs, more...

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Similar:
copy editor, copyreader, editor, script editor, Emacs, input method editor, edit, text file, WYSIWYG, viewer, more...

Opposite:
visual editor, WYSIWYG editor, graphical editor

Types:
Microsoft Word, Google Docs, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Pages, TextEdit, Notepad, WordPad, vi, emacs, more...



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