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Learn what text editors are, and how they can help you manage and format your code.
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A text editor is a program that offers
a huge variety of features to make writing
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code easier and faster.
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Word processing programs
like Microsoft Word or
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Google Docs are designed to help you
manage and format the presentation of text
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to change the text layout, color,
size, font, format, and so on.
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In a similar way, text editors provide
tools to make it easier to manage and
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format code.
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Text editors can automatically
complete HTML tags, so
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that you don't have to
type everything out.
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They can highlight brackets and
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curly braces to make it easier to tell
where your functions begin and end.
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