Книга: Advanced PIC Microcontroller Projects in C

5.1.1 Text Editors

5.1.1 Text Editors

A text editor is used to create or edit programs and text files. The Windows operating system comes with a text editor program called Notepad. Using Notepad, we can create a new program file, modify an existing file, or display or print the contents of a file. It is important to realize that programs used for word processing, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be used for this purpose, since they embed word formatting characters such as bold, italic, and underline within the text.

Most assemblers and compilers come with built-in text editors, making it possible to create a program and then assemble or compile it without having to exit from the editor. These editors provide additional features as well, such as automatic keyword highlighting, syntax checking, parenthesis matching, and comment line identification. Different parts of a program can be shown in different colors to make the program more readable (e.g., comments in one color and keywords in another). Such features help to eliminate syntax errors during the programming stage, thus speeding up the development process.

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