TextEdit
name = TextEdit
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|developer =
Apple Computer
|latest_release_version = 1.4
|latest_release_date = 2005
|operating_system =
Mac OS X
|genre =
Text editor,
word processor
|license = Bundled with
Mac OS X
|website = is a simple
word processor and
text editor, first featured in
NeXT's
NEXTSTEP and
OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with
Mac OS X since
Apple Computer's acquisition of NeXT and available as a
GNUstep application for other unix-compatible operating systems such as
Linux.
It replaces the text editor of previous
Macintosh operating systems,
SimpleText.
Encyclopedia
TextEdit is a simple
word processor and
text editor, first featured in
NeXT's
NEXTSTEP and
OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with
Mac OS X since
Apple Computer's acquisition of NeXT and available as a
GNUstep application for other unix-compatible operating systems such as
Linux.
It replaces the text editor of previous
Macintosh operating systems,
SimpleText. TextEdit reads and writes documents in
Rich Text Format and
Rich Text Format Directory and reads plaintext files,
Microsoft Word document format and
HTML, and can open old SimpleText files. It also has access to the operating system's built-in
spell-checking service. The version included in
Mac OS X v10.3 added the ability to read and write documents in Word format, and the version in
Mac OS X v10.4 the ability to read and write Word XML documents.
Formatted text, justification, and even the inclusion of graphics and other multimedia elements are supported by TextEdit, as well as the ability to read and write to different character encodings, including
Unicode.
Mac OS X also includes
emacs,
vi, pico and other
terminal-based text editors, as it is a
Unix-based operating system.
Source code
Apple distributes TextEdit's
source code as part of the documentation of its integrated development environment
XCode. On the
internet, the source code to a version of TextEdit enhanced to demonstrate the calling of
Quartz Composer compositions from the
Cocoa API can be found at .
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