text editor

Example Sentences

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So Mr. Simonyi built a text editor, giving rise to modern word processors like Microsoft Word.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023

“The greatest builders of technology, now all in Miami, start to realize the beach is more fun than staring at a text editor for 16 hours a day. No new apps are released in 2021.”

From The Verge • Dec. 18, 2020

To set up a Manubot project, users clone a dedicated GitHub repository to their computer and modify it using a standard programming text editor, such as Emacs or SublimeText.

From Nature • Mar. 30, 2020

I was just opening the project’s files in a simple text editor – we wrote the code for websites by hand – when the phone rang.

From The Guardian • Sep. 15, 2019

That’s when Link rang his doorbell and he startled guiltily and quit the text editor, saving the opening sentence.

From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Doctorow, Cory