エディター

also: エディタ

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

1

text editor

abbreviationcomputing

Computing term, treated as an abbreviation of テキストエディタ. Refers to software for editing plain text or code.

〈物もの〉をエディターで編へん集しゅうするto edit something using a (text) editor
このコードをエディターで編へん集しゅうした。
I edited this code using a text editor.
〈人ひと〉はエディターとして働はたらくsomeone works as an editor
彼かの女じょは雑ざっ誌しのエディターとして働はたらいている。
She works as an editor for a magazine.

編へん集しゅう者しゃN2sense 2
編集者 is the standard Japanese word for a person who edits books or magazines, while エディター is a katakana loanword used in similar contexts or for editing software.
テキストエディタ sense 1
テキストエディタ is the fuller, explicit term for text-editing software, while エディター is often used as its shortened form in casual computing contexts.

エディターUsage27%
Priority katakana form; used both for a person who edits and for software.
エディタUsage73%
Shorter katakana form often seen in computing, especially for a text editor.

Katakana spelling. No language of origin is specified, so the exact borrowing history is not stated here.