Text buffer
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Text buffer may refer to:
- In programming:
- a text buffer is a region in memory where text is temporarily stored while it is being worked on by the CPU. The CPU can write and read to and from a text buffer, essentially manipulating text. The CPU might be moving it from one location to another to fulfil a request by a user. see Data buffer
- a part of video adapter's memory in a text mode;
- a backup (or mirror, or emulation) of that part in the system RAM, see e.g. virtual console.
- In text editors:
- same as clipboard (software), but for text.