Editing Help:Text editor support (section)

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[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|Editing Wikipedia articles]] using a full-fledged [[text editor]] is often more convenient than a web browser's standard text area. Text editors provide facilities that are very useful for writing and editing articles (especially ''long'' articles), such as [[spell checker|spell checking]], search and replace, [[Macro (computer science)|macros]], [[syntax highlighting]], and alphabetic sorting. They also provide a quick and easy way of saving a local backup copy of an article, possibly for future offline editing. [[#wikEd|wikEd]] for Wikipedia (Preferences > Gadgets > Editing) supports some of these features, and some browsers support spell-checking.  In any case, you can select Wikipedia [[VisualEditor]] for a visual editing, [[wikipedia:VisualEditor|in your user preferences]].

This page contains pointers for adapting several external and in-browser text editors to editing Wikipedia articles.