Text editors (Computer programs) (Topical Term)
- Editors, Text (Computer programs)
90-55516: Harper dict. of computing, 1991 (text editor, a program that will enable text appearing on the screen to enter memory, where it can be amended, deleted, enlarged as necessary; a text editor combined with a print formatter constitutes a word processing program)
92-14553: Encyc. of computer science, 1993 (text editing systems, use the power of the computer to create, add, delete, and modify textual material; once considered tools for programmers, now often designed exclusively to do non-computer-related tasks (programmer's editor are now specialized tools); article includes discussion of McWrite and of WordPerfect)
Wikipedia, via WWW, Aug. 9, 2006: (Computer software ... Programming software usually provides tools to assist a programmer in writing computer programs and software using different programming languages in a more convenient way. The tools include text editors, compilers, interpreters, linkers, debuggers, and so on)