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A tutorial about text editors. #2

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Introduce people to text editors, different from other applications that also work with files, mainly because you really edit "the raw data" that is in the file, nothing more. The file contains only what you write.

(This is different from word processors for example, which write some "structure" that describes the document you're writing to the file, not just the text. In fact, it's quite similar to HTML + CSS, becaus it also describes a document and then adds styling to it.)

Proposed contents:

  • what is a file
  • what do we mean then we say "text-only"/plaintext
  • use one text editor (SublimeText), but mention that any old text editor (including notepad on windows) is ok
  • basic guideline: it's a texteditor when you can't change the font of text in the document
  • some examples of text files
    • HTML & CSS files
    • lots of them, but some common "relatable" examples, maybe CSV as an example for a "simple" format for tables?
  • explain what syntax highlighting does (e.g. hints for correctness, less "blind" editing)
  • example for creating files & directories (for example for a "book" (directory) with several "chapters" (files))

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