Text editor
A text editor is software for creating and modifying text files, including plain-text documents and source code.
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The Code Editor is an editing view that displays and permits modification of a page's underlying HTML markup.
- How it is used
- Enables direct HTML edits for local styling, CSS classes, and link-related page content.
- How deep it goes
- Explains interface access and practical tag-and-attribute edits, while leaving broader HTML mechanics largely to link exercises.
- Examples
- Uses a red paragraph, a CSS class, and recipe-page hyperlinks with targets inside another page.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Gutenberg’s Code Editor to make local HTML and inline-CSS changes, then return to visual editing.
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- How it is used
- Uses the editor pane to write, save, run, and organize Python programs while reserving the console for quick experiments and output.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the editor’s workspace role and basic workflow but stops short of implementation details about editors or file formats.
- Examples
- Uses 3 + 2 and 4 / 5 for console tests, saved programs for editor practice, and multiple tabs for managing files.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure it through Spyder by opening files, writing programs, saving them, running them, and viewing results.
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Related concepts
- Visual Studio Codeincludes · Visual Studio Code is Microsoft’s cross-platform source-code editor, extensible with tools for programming, debugging, and other development workflows.
- HTMLuses · HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language for structuring content and elements in web documents.
- execution environmentpart of · An execution environment is the computing context, including hardware, software, configuration, and supporting resources, in which programs run.
- Visual Studioincludes · Visual Studio is Microsoft's integrated development environment for creating, building, debugging, and testing software across programming languages and platforms.
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