A "destructive" editor is just an editor. Your text editor is a "destructive" editor. A "non-destructive" editor does no editing, and instead stores (in a sep

A "destructive" editor is just an editor. Your text editor is a "destructive" editor. A "non-destructive" editor does no editing, and instead stores (in a separate file) a sequence of patches to apply to the original file, resulting in your desired output. This isn't really editing, but the industry didn't do a good job at naming this stuff.