If they do talk about their work it is with other editors. And still, rarely. And with caution. They will talk about themselves and their work in curious ways. They are more than capable of disparaging their own practice.
Editors are embarrassed themselves at their own love of such arcane things.
All the time the language lives its own life, like an adolescent, beyond the editor's wishes. Editing is desire incarnate. Moyta Costello currently works both as a writer and an editor.