Text editor

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Editors like Leafpad, shown here, are often included with operating systems as a default helper application for opening text files.

A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. An example of such program is "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad).[1][2][3] Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be used to change files such as configuration files, documentation files and programming language source code.[4]

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  2. ^ Peter Norton; Scott H. Clark (2002). Peter Norton's New Inside the PC. Sams Publishing. p. 54. ISBN 0672322897.
  3. ^ L. Gopalakrishnan; G. Padmanabhan; Sudhat Shukla (2003). Your Home PC: Making the Most of Your Personal Computer. Tata McGraw-Hill Education. p. 190. ISBN 0070473544.
  4. ^ "The Best Free Text Editors for Windows, Linux, and Mac". 28 April 2012. Every operating system comes with a default, basic text editor, but most of us install our own enhanced text editors to get more features.