Text Editing System
A Text Editing System is a text processing system that supports text editing tasks (to edit text files).
- AKA: Text Editor.
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- It can range from being a Command-Line Interface Text Editing System to being a Graphical User Interface Text Editing System, based on user interaction mode and system design.
- It can range from being a Plain Text Editing System to being a Rich Text Editing System, based on the type of content it supports (basic text vs. rich text with formatting).
- It can range from being a Basic Text Editor (with minimal features) to being a Comprehensive Text Editor, based on the number of advanced features it offers.
- It can range from being a Standalone Text Editor to being part of a Text Processing Service, based on whether it functions independently or integrates with larger systems like cloud services or software suites.
- It can range from being a Interactive Text Editor to being part of a Batch Text Editing System, based on whether it operates in real-time or processes multiple files in batch mode.
- It can range from being a Single-User Text Editing System to a Collaborative Text Editing System, based on whether it supports individual editing or multi-user collaboration with real-time synchronization.
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- It can include Text Editing Tools, such as: syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and text error corrections.
- It can support Text Editing Features, such as: version control, ..., ...
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- Example(s):
- CLI Text Editors, such as: vim and emacs.
- Desktop Text Editors, such as: BBEdit and MS Notepad.
- Text Error Correction Systems, such as: Grammar Correction Task and Spelling Correction Task integration in editors like Grammarly.
- WikiText Editing Systems, such as: the Wikipedia editor used for creating and revising content.
- LaTeX Editing Systems, such as: Texmaker LaTeX editor for academic writing.
- HTML Editing Systems, such as: Adobe Dreamweaver for editing website content.
- Source Code Editing Systems, such as: Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code.
- JSON Editing Systems, such as: JSON Editor Online for formatting and editing JSON data.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Binary File Editors, which modify non-text files.
- Word Processing Systems, such as Microsoft Word, focused more on rich document editing than raw text files.
- Proofreading Systems, which focus on reviewing text without significant editing tools.
- Document Editing Systems, such as collaborative tools like Google Docs designed for complex document management.
- Text Mining Systems, which analyze text for patterns rather than editing it.
- Image Processing Systems, which manipulate visual content rather than textual data.
- Text Tokenization Systems, Word Segmentation Systems, Lemmatization Systems, POS Tagging Systems, which process text for analysis rather than edit it.
- Video Editing Systems, which focus on editing multimedia content.
- See: Word Processor, Programming Environment, Natural Language Processing System, Text Post-Processing System, Text Processing Task, Text Encoding Decoding System, Text Error Correction System, Typesetting System.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor Retrieved:2020-2-16.
- A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software, following the naming of Microsoft Notepad. Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be used to change files such as configuration files, documentation files and programming language source code.
2009
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=text%20editor
- S: (n) copy editor, copyreader, text editor (an editor who prepares text for publication)
- S: (n) text editor ((computer science) an application that can be used to create and view and edit text files)