Hello and welcome to this introduction to text editors what are text editors text editors are computer
programs that enables you to write and edit plain text text documents mainly come in two flavors.
You can either have a rich text or a plain text with a rich text.
You can format it while a plain text is rather plain.
You can't really do much with it with a rich text you can format the text with bullet points and so
on but you can do that with a plain text.
The text editors that programmers and developers use are usually plain text editors major operating
systems like Windows and the Mac are shipped with a free text editor.
Windows chips with notepad which is free comp built into the system.
If you're on a Mac he comes shipped with text edit text editors can also be cross platform that is they
can work on most systems like Macs and windows so they are not confined to one they will work on multiple
operating systems.
Let's take a look at some very popular text editors that are cross platform.
These are popularly used by developers and programmers.
They are not in any particular order of popularity.
They are all modern plain text editor.
So we have brackets which can be downloaded from the link displayed.
And if you want to know more about the editor if you can refer to the link displayed as well.
The brackets text editor is completely free to use and then we have the atom which also can be downloaded
and install on the link address displayed.
And you want to find more about that text editor.
You can also do that on the link displayed.
It is also free to use.
We then have visuals to do code which is also free to use and can be downloaded from the link displayed.
Also you can find out more information from the link displayed.
The next one is called Sublime Text.
This is also a cross platform editor.
It is however not free to use it will let you use it for a period of time but it will then stop prompting
you to purchase a text.
Edit Also it's not completely free even though it lets you use it but you will get a prompt from time
to time after you've used it for a certain period of time so that is it for this video on the introduction
to text editors.
Thank you for watching.
Bye for now.