A visual editor is
computer software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications.
The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...
for editing
text files using a
textual or
graphical user interface that normally renders the content (text) in accordance with embedded markup code, e.g.,
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets ( ...
,
Wikitext, rather than displaying the raw text. Edits made to the page appear in
real time, correctly formatted, and are often referred to as
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). It is common for the software to permit switching to
source-code editor
A source-code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs. It may be a standalone application or it may be built into an integrated development environment (IDE).
Features
Source-code editor ...
mode so that the original
source code
In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language. A programmer writes the human readable source code to control the behavior of a computer.
Since a computer, at base, only ...
can be viewed or modified.
By definition, all visual editors require a refreshable display device. However, some editors using such devices, e.g.,
BRIEF,
ISPF
In computing, Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) is a software product for many historic IBM mainframe operating systems and currently the z/OS and z/VM operating systems that run on IBM mainframes. It includes a Text editor, screen e ...
,
gVim,
KEDIT,
THE
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,
XEDIT
XEDIT is a visual editor for VM (operating system), VM/CMS using block-oriented terminal, block mode IBM 3270 Computer terminal, terminals. (Line-mode terminals are also supported.)
XEDIT is much more line-oriented than modern Personal compu ...
, are not visual editors.
See also
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WYSIWYG
Notes
References
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