Text Editor Definition

A text editor is any word processing program that you can use to type and edit text. Hey, they don’t call it a text editor for nothing… Word Pad and NotePad for Windows and SimpleText and TextEdit for the Mac are common text editors. Larger programs such as Microsoft Word and Word Perfect are also text editors, but they have many more features. You can actually write HTML code and create HTML pages with a simple text editor, as long as you know the correct HTML syntax.