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What is a Text Editor?
What is a Text Editor? A text editor is a program for displaying, editing, and saving plain text documents with no formatting. Formatted documents are not considered text, and are displayed and edited with a word processor. Common examples of text editors are VI on Linux computers, Notepad on Windows computers, and WorldText on Macintosh computers.