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Hello and welcome to this introduction to text editors what are text editors text editors are computer

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programs that enables you to write and edit plain text text documents mainly come in two flavors.

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You can either have a rich text or a plain text with a rich text.

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You can format it while a plain text is rather plain.

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You can't really do much with it with a rich text you can format the text with bullet points and so

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on but you can do that with a plain text.

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The text editors that programmers and developers use are usually plain text editors major operating

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systems like Windows and the Mac are shipped with a free text editor.

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Windows chips with notepad which is free comp built into the system.

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If you're on a Mac he comes shipped with text edit text editors can also be cross platform that is they

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can work on most systems like Macs and windows so they are not confined to one they will work on multiple

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operating systems.

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Let's take a look at some very popular text editors that are cross platform.

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These are popularly used by developers and programmers.

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They are not in any particular order of popularity.

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They are all modern plain text editor.

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So we have brackets which can be downloaded from the link displayed.

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And if you want to know more about the editor if you can refer to the link displayed as well.

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The brackets text editor is completely free to use and then we have the atom which also can be downloaded

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and install on the link address displayed.

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And you want to find more about that text editor.

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You can also do that on the link displayed.

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It is also free to use.

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We then have visuals to do code which is also free to use and can be downloaded from the link displayed.

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Also you can find out more information from the link displayed.

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The next one is called Sublime Text.

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This is also a cross platform editor.

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It is however not free to use it will let you use it for a period of time but it will then stop prompting

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you to purchase a text.

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Edit Also it's not completely free even though it lets you use it but you will get a prompt from time

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to time after you've used it for a certain period of time so that is it for this video on the introduction

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to text editors.

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Thank you for watching.

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Bye for now.