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text-editor

text-editor is the alternative form of text editor.

Meaning of text editor

Noun

text editor (plural text editors)

  1. A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see text, editor.
    • Between 1620 and 1640 he worked as a text editor in the Patriarchal Press in Moscow.1976, Robert O. Crummey, “ARSENII GLUKHOI (?-1643)”, in Joseph L[eon] Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 2 (Anikin - Bailov Rocks), Gulf Breeze, Fla....

Forms of text-editor

pluraltext-editors

Questions about text-editor

What is text-editor the alternative form of?
Text-editor is the alternative form of text editor.

Words near text-editor in the dictionary

  1. text walls
  2. text-based
  3. text-book
  4. text-books
  5. text-critical
  6. text-editor
  7. text-editors
  8. text-to-speech
  9. text-type
  10. text-types
  11. texta

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