It seems that in the common, accepted terminology, text editors [1] are used to edit plain text documents and word processors [2] are what LibreOffice Writer an

It seems that in the common, accepted terminology, text editors [1] are used to edit plain text documents and word processors [2] are what LibreOffice Writer and Microsoft Word are. They process formatted text document, and sure, they can even be used as text editors. So yes, they edit texts, but calling them text editors can be confusing if not clear from the context because of the common terminology (here, the context was clear for me though). [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor