If you want to understand the difference between text editors and word processors, read on. When you do this in the context of this book’s exercises, we want you to use a so-called text editor, not a word processor.įor a quick lookup of common free and open source text editors for Windows, macOS and Linux, see the table at the end of this appendix. Although there are several ways to create a file with text in it, most of us will use a software application in which we type or copy/paste the text.
On several occasions in this text you will encounter exercises which require you to create files containing some textual content perhaps a PHP program, some XML, some JSON, etc. Appendix A: When Editing Code Files, Use a Text Editor Not(!) a Word Processor
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