Editing Visual editor

{{Short description|Type of text editor}}
{{about|WYSIWYG editors, which display the final form of marked-up text|full-screen text editors|Full-screen writing program|the MediaWiki editor used on Wikipedia|VisualEditor}}
A '''visual editor''' is [[computer software]] for editing [[ASCII|text files]] using a [[text user interface|textual]] or [[graphical user interface|graphical]] user interface that normally renders the content (text) in accordance with embedded markup code, e.g., [[HTML]], [[Wiki#Editing|Wikitext]], rather than displaying the raw text.  Edits made to the page appear in [[wikt:real-time|real time]], correctly formatted, and are often referred to as [[WYSIWYG]] (What You See Is What You Get). It is common for the software to permit switching to [[source-code editor]] mode so that the original [[source code]] can be viewed or modified.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Definition of visual editor|url=https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/visual-editor|access-date=2021-12-26|website=PCMAG|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Silvestrini|first=Stefano|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oCF7aoyPBZMC&pg=PA95|title=Xoops - To Create Dynamic Web Sites Simply|publisher=Stefano Silvestrini|year=2007|isbn=978-0-9762432-3-6|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Bud E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UUoJ0nJ7taYC&pg=PA141 |title=Creating Web Pages For Dummies |date=2009-03-11 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-470-44002-5 |language=en}}</ref>

By definition, all visual editors require a refreshable display device. However, some editors{{efn|even GUI editors}} using such devices, e.g., [[Brief (text editor)|BRIEF]], [[ISPF]], [[gVim]], [[KEDIT]], [[XEDIT#THE (The Hessling Editor)|THE]], [[XEDIT]], are not visual editors.

==See also==
*[[WYSIWYG]]

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