Text Editor:

• A text editor is a software application used to create, edit, and manipulate text files.
• It provides features and functionalities for typing, modifying, formatting, and saving text content.
• Notepad, Notepad++ are comes under text editors.
• Examples of text editors include Notepad (Windows), TextEdit (macOS), etc.

Code Editor:

• “Code editor” is nothing but “An advanced version of a text editor”.
• A code editor is a software tool used by developers to write, edit, and manage code.
• Code editors are used to increase the coding experience, integrated functionalities, color/syntax highlighting and auto completion.

1. Coding experience: “coding experience” refers to the overall satisfaction, ease, and productivity a developer feels while using the editor to write and manage code.
2. Integrated functionalities: “integrated functionalities” refers to additional tools, features, or services that are seamlessly integrated into the editor to enhance the development workflow.
3. Color/syntax highlighting: “Color/syntax highlighting” is a feature of code editors that visually distinguishes different elements of code by assigning them different colors or styles.
4. Auto completion: “Auto completion,” also known as “code completion” is a feature of code editors that automatically suggests completions for code as developers type.

• One of the best example for code editor is “VS code”.

Examples of code editors:

1. VS code
2. Atom
3. Eclipse
4. Sublime text
5. Visual Studio
6. JetBrains editor
7. IntelliJ IDE
8. Android Studio, etc.

• We also have an advanced version of code editor and its called “IDE”(Integrated Development Environment).

Why should we prefer code editor?

• Code editors are specifically designed for writing and editing code.
• It offers quick, lightweight, customizable, and efficient environment for writing code.
• In this we also have additional functionalities like version control, integrated terminal, Plugins, etc.