A visual editor is

computer software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...

for editing text files using a

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graphical Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, ...

user interface that normally renders the content (text) in accordance with embedded markup code, e.g.,

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, rather than displaying the raw text. Edits made to the page appear in real time, correctly formatted, and is often referred to as

WYSIWYG In computing, WYSIWYG ( ), an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, is a system in which editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed d ...

(What You See Is What You Get). It is common for the software to permit switching to source-code editor mode so that the original

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can be viewed or modified. By definition, all visual editors require a re-fresh-able display device. However, some editors using such devices, e.g., BRIEF,

ISPF In computing, Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) is a software product for many historic IBM mainframe operating systems and currently the z/OS and z/VM operating systems that run on IBM mainframes. It includes a screen editor, th ...

, gVim, KEDIT, THE, XEDIT, are not visual editors.

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