Editor in a sentence as a noun

My editor of choice to get some work done. Stop procrastinating!

Just by opening up a text editor. It's an inspiring thought.

I sit with my editor in one screen and a browser window in the other, and I piece together the layout as I go along. I assure you, it works just fine.

A frankly lousy text editor. Seriously, I keep expecting this to get better, and it just never quite gets there.

More importantly, I'm an IDE and editor nut. Most of the start of my career was on Visual Studio, then SlickEdit, and since then I've tried out many IDEs and editors.

It ships with a good dozen+ skins, and has an editor built into it to let people easily build more. The only time that functionality has apparently been used is when I was building the initial default skin set.

Ruby was a shell construction kit with a visual editor to lay out forms and components, which we called gizmos. You would drag arrows between gizmos to connect events fired by one gizmo to actions taken on another.

Let's keep it as a bonus type thing so the pressure won't be so high to produce just anything, to torture a text editor until it gives something that pleases the eye and sleights the mind. Please, keep the industry from moving to make this sort of thing a requirement.

At some point I think I realized that no matter how feature-rich my editor was, the main thing stopping me from writing good and fast code was _thinking_, not configuring my text editor.

Oh, and by the way, the copy editor in me can't help but notice that an app that's intended to help you improve your writing tells you to "Aim for 2 or less" adverbs, rather than "Aim for 2 or fewer."

== Vim or Emacs == Just pick one and force yourself to use it to the exclusion of other editors. Future you will thank you later, because you'll still be using it 20 years from now. "We are typists first, programmers second" comes to mind. You need to be able to move chunks of code around, substitute things with regexes, use marks, use editor macros, etc.

Marco has been auditioning text editors for several months now, and has come to the conclusion that he is happiest with Textmate. Marco would strongly prefer to help Odgaard fix his pricing mistake over the option of having to switch to a different editor because Odgaard burns out on Textmate completely.

I can't imagine a less rewarding product to build than a text editor for programmers. Selling programming tools is an ice-cubes-to-Inuits proposition to begin with. But new text editors demographically appeal to the most entitled, pickiest segment of the programmer market.

Quote Examples using Editor

It wasn't a mere text editor with keyboard shortcuts anymoreit had become an extension of your body. Nay, an extension of your very essence as a programmer. Editing source code alone now seemed an insufficient usage of Vim. You installed it on all of your machines at home and used it to write everything from emails to English papers. You installed a portable version along with a fine-tuned personalized . vimrc file onto a flash drive so that you could have Vim with you everywhere you went, keeping you company, comforting you, making you feel like you had a little piece of home in your pocket no matter where you were. Vim entered every part of your online life. Unhappy with the meager offerings of ViewSourceWith, you quickly graduated to Vimperator, and then again to Pentadactyl. You used to just surf the web. Now you are the web. When you decided to write an iPhone application, the first thing you did was change XCode's default editor to MacVim. When you got a job working with .

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Editor definitions

noun

a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)

noun

(computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data