text editor

program which enables users to edit text files without design preferences or control characters

A text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files. Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code.
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Noun
1. an editor who prepares text for publication
(synonym) copy editor, copyreader
(hypernym) editor, editor in chief
2. (computer science) an application that can be used to create and view and edit text files
(hypernym) editor program, editor
(classification) computer science, computing

<tool, text> A utility program for creating and modifying text files. This differs from a word processor in that the word processors often embed special control codes or escape sequences in the file to control formatting.
(1996-11-15)