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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Jan 9 02:02 AM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from 01:48 AM:

I have no idea how to use a text editor, if I have one on my laptop.

A text editor is a very common piece of software that normally comes with various operating systems. Windows has one called Notepad. The basic idea behind a text editor is that you write text in it and save it to a file. Unlike a word processor, a text editor works with plain, unformatted text. So, text editors are more commonly used by programmers than by writers. I use a third party text editor called Notepad++. It includes a bunch of extra features to make things easier for programmers and power users, but you can still use it to just write and save plain text.

These days, text editors tend to have standardized controls, particularly for common stuff they all support. Some of the main things to remember are Ctrl-c for copying text, Ctrl-x for cutting text, Ctrl-v for pasting text, Ctrl-s for saving a file, and Ctrl-o for opening a file. Ctrl is the control key, which is marked Ctrl on Windows keyboards, and like a shift key, you hold it down while pressing another key. On an Apple, you might use the Option key instead, but since I don't have one, I can't say for sure.


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