Editor Glossary
Browse 4 editor terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
4 Editor Terms
- Emacs
- A highly extensible text editor created by Richard Stallman, famous for being so configurable it's essentially an operating system with a text editor built in....
- Syntax Highlighting
- The display of source code in different colors and font styles based on the grammatical role of each token — keywords, strings, comments, variables — to...
- Vid
- The editor/IDE component for the V programming language, designed as a lightweight, fast alternative to heavier IDEs. Part of V's philosophy of providing a...
- Vim
- Vi IMproved — a highly configurable, modal text editor that's been a standard Unix tool since 1991. Famous for its steep learning curve and the enduring joke...