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Everything about Text editor
Software for editing plain text documents
A text editor is interactive software that allows a user to edit plain text. Due to the prevalence of editing text, many operating systems come with a text editor installed by default. Well known text editors include Vim, Emacs and Notepad. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Text editorA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Evaluation of an online text simplification editor using manual and automated metrics for perceived and actual text difficultyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Learning GNU EmacsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: TIP-Editor: An Accurate 3D Editor Following Both Text-Prompts And Image-PromptsCited 78 times
- Go sideways: Text-based user interfaceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: EmacsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun 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.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
TIP-Editor: An Accurate 3D Editor Following Both Text-Prompts And Image-Prompts
Formal specification of a display-oriented text editor
Effects of Experience on Learning, Using, and Evaluating a Text Editor
A generalized text editor
The text editor sam
Picking Our Text: Archival Description, Authenticity, and the Archivist as Editor
Human factoring a text editor manual
MindEdit: A P300-based text editor for mobile devices
🆕 Influential since 2022
Evaluation of an online text simplification editor using manual and automated metrics for perceived and actual text difficulty
MathTOUCH Editor: Rich-text Editor for Math E-learning Using an Intelligent Math Input Interface
Undeclared File Architecture Features. Automated Office, Text Editor, Docx Format
Differentially processed optimized collaborative rich text editor
Text Craft AI - The Smartest Document Editor Ever
📚 Books worth reading
Learning GNU EmacsDebra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt · 1991
GNU Emacs manualRichard Stallman · 1986
Learning the vi and Vim EditorsArnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah · 2008
Learning the vi editorLinda Lamb · 1985
The Craft of Text EditingCraig A. Finseth · 1991
vi and Vim EditorsArnold Robbins · 2011
vi EditorArnold Robbins · 1999- 📕OEDJ. C. Boudreaux · 1987
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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