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Introducing the VS Code Text Editor

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What's a Text Editor?

2:57 with Treasure Porth

Learn what a text editor does and how it can help you build web pages and applications more quickly and efficiently.

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    A text editor is a program that offers a variety of features to make 0:00
    writing code easier and faster. 0:03
    Word processing programs like Microsoft Word and Google Docs 0:06
    are designed to help you manage and format the presentation of text, 0:09
    to change the text layout, color, size, font, and so on. 0:13
    In a similar way, text editors provide tools to make it easier to manage and 0:17
    format code. 0:21
    Text editors can automatically complete HTML tags so 0:23
    that you don't have to type everything out. 0:26

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