Editing Text editor (section)

{{Short description|Computer software used to edit plain text documents}}
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[[File:Leafpad-screenshot.png|right|thumb|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]]).<ref>{{cite book |author1=H. Albert Napier|author2= Ollie N. Rivers|author3=Stuart Wagner|date= 2005 |title= Creating a Winning E-Business|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IZQFAAAAQBAJ&q=%22notepad+software%22+%22text+editor%22&pg=PA330|publisher= Cengage Learning |page= 330|isbn=1111796092}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Peter Norton|author2= Scott H. Clark|date= 2002 |title= Peter Norton's New Inside the PC|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=O0FTac_k7CIC&q=%22Notepad+software%22&pg=PA54|publisher= Sams Publishing |page= 54|isbn=0672322897}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=L. Gopalakrishnan |author2= G. Padmanabhan |author3= Sudhat Shukla |date= 2003 |title= Your Home PC: Making the Most of Your Personal Computer |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7NKLlw5KAbYC&q=%22notepad+software%22+%22text+editor%22&pg=PA190 |publisher=[[Tata McGraw-Hill Education]] |page= 190 |isbn= 0070473544}}</ref> Text editors are provided with [[operating system]]s and software development packages, and can be used to change files such as [[configuration file]]s, documentation files and [[programming language]] [[source code]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.howtogeek.com/112385/the-best-free-text-editors-for-windows-and-linux/ |title=The Best Free Text Editors for Windows, Linux, and Mac |date=28 April 2012 |quote=Every operating system comes with a default, basic text editor, but most of us install our own enhanced text editors to get more features.}}</ref>