text-editing

Changing document words

Text-editing is the process of modifying written content in digital form—inserting, deleting, copying, and rearranging text.

The term usually refers to working with plain text files rather than formatted documents: text-editing software, basic text-editing functions.

A text-editing program or text editor is a fundamental tool for programmers and system administrators.

operations

cut

Severance or reduction

  • copyIdentical reproduction made
  • pasteThick sticky substance
  • deleteRemove or erase

insert · replace · undo · redo · select · highlight · drag · drop · merge · split

formatting

font

Character style set

alignment · indentation · spacing · margins · paragraph · justification · kerning · tracking · strikethrough · superscript

revision

track changes

Edit visibility feature

annotation · strikeout · insertion · deletion · version control · diff · collaborative · suggestion · accept · reject

software

word processor

Document creation software

  • TextEditBasic Mac writing app
  • nanoMetric prefix for billionth
  • IDEUnified coding software suite

markup · autosave · spell check · find and replace · plugins · extensions

code

syntax

Rules for arranging words

refactoring · commenting · debugging · snippets · line numbers · regex · grep · diff · merge · minify

Opposites
creation vs. modification

text-editingoriginal composition

Freshly created artistic piece

drafting · writing · authoring · creating · reading

textual intervention vs. preservation

text-editingreading

Interpreting written text

proofreading · viewing · archiving

text vs. other media

text-editingvideo editing

Assembling filmed footage digitally

image editing · audio editing · photo editing · film editing · sound editing

Family

text, edit, editing, texts, textual, textile, texture, textured, textures

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G