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+<body>
+<h1>
+<span CLASS=LXRSHORTDESC>
+HTML (i.e. Composer) and plaintext editor<p>
+</span>
+</h1>
+<span CLASS=LXRLONGDESC>
+The editor directory contains C++ interfaces, C++ code, and XUL/Javascript
+for the embeddable editor component, which is used for the HTML Editor
+("Composer"), for plain and html mail compose, and for text fields and
+text areas throughout the product.
+<p>
+The editor is designed like a "browser window with editing features": it
+adds some special classes for editing text and managing transaction
+undo/redo, but reuses browser code for nearly everything else.
+</span>
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