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Definition of Editor

By David Bolton, About.com

Definition: An Editor is an program much like a Word Processor that you use to edit the Source Code of any program you write.

Most IDEs come with a built in editor and some will automatically highlight compile errors in the editor to simplify fixing them.

Glossary:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Also Known As: Text Editor
Examples:
Some programmers are happy to use Notepad as their preferred editor.
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