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Text Editor

Prepared by: Er. Inderjeet Bal,


Assistant Professor, Dept. of CS & IT,
Hindu Kanya College
Text Editor
 A text editor is a piece of software that allows you to
open, view, and edit plain text files.
 Unlike word processors, text editors do not add
formatting to text, instead focusing on editing functions
for plain text.
 Text editors are used by a wide variety of people, for a
wide variety of purposes.
 Used as software development packages.
Text Editor…
 Some text editors are small and simple.
 Provided with operating system or
software development packages.
 For example, UNIX and UNIX like
operating systems have Vi editor.
 Microsoft windows system comes with
the very simple Notepad.
Design of a Text Editor
 diagram
Components of Text Editor
 Main Window
• Contains title of the file being edited, menu and status

bar.
• Its only purpose is to provide an interface to the user.
Components of Text
Editor…
 Text View
• Important component of text editor.

• It is a child of main window.

• Its primary purpose to display and edit text.

• It is the visual component of a text editor.

• Its needs to do a number of other things, such as displaying

scrollbars, process mouse and keyboard inputs and support drag


and drop.
Components of Text
Editor…

 Text Document
• Not visible but used to store and manipulate a text file,

once it has been loaded into the memory.

• It knows how to manipulate text and supply text to the

edit control when it wants to draw something.


Components of Text
Editor…
 Text File
• Not a part of text editor but plays important role in the

editing process.
• It’s the disk file that stores the text that we want to edit.

• The TextDocument will interface directly with this text file,

reading from and writing to it when it is time to load or


save a new document.
Editing Process
The editing process includes the following processes

 Travelling: means movement of editing context to a new position within the

document.

 Filtering : it extracts the relevant portion of the target document at the point

of interest, such as the next statement of text or the next statement.

 Formatting: determines how the result will ne seen as a visible representation

i.e what will be the view on the screen, also known as viewing.

 Editing: here actual editing is done.


Types of Editors
 Line Editors
• A line editor is a text editor.

• Old-fashioned when there was no screen and no way to move a

cursor around a document.


• Typing, editing and document display do not occurs
simultaneously.
• Line editors maintain multiple representations of text.

• A line editor for DOS is Edlin.


Types of Editors
 Stream Editors
• It views the entire text as a stream of characters.

• It supports character, line and context oriented command based

on the current editing context indicated by the position of a text


pointer.
• Stream editors also maintain multiple representations of text.

• Again like line editors, stream editors do not display the text in

the manner it would appear if printed.


Types of Editors
 Window Editors
• Window editor is similar to text editor that editor that is

oriented around lines.


• It facilitates the user to display documents through the

use of social features for editing, saving and formatting


etc.
• MS-Office is an example of windows editor and MS-

Word is an example of multi window editor.


Types of Editors
 Screen Editors
• A screen editor is based on the principle of WYSIWYG.

• It displays a screenful of text at a line.

• Its possible to see the effect of an edit operation on the screen.

• The document is printed in exactly the same form as is

displayed on the screen.


• Examples: Vi editor, Xedit, GNU Emacs etc. are screen

editors.
Types of Editors
 Word Processors
• A structure editor incorporates an awareness of the structure

of a document.
• Useful in browsing through a document.

• A special class of structure editors called syntax directed

editors are used in programming environment.


• Example of structure editor is NLS.
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