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TextEdit is a simple, open source
Open source

Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product's source . Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical Strategy element of their business operations....
 word processor
Word processor

A word processor is a computer Application software used for the production of any sort of printable material.Word processor may also refer to an obsolete type of stand-alone office machine, popular in the 1970s and 80s, combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of an electric typewriter with a dedicated computer for th...
 and text editor
Text editor

A text editor is a type of software application used for editing plain text files.Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code....
, first featured in NeXT
NeXT

NeXT, Inc. was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets....
's NEXTSTEP
NEXTSTEP

Nextstep was the original Object-oriented operating system, computer multitasking operating system that NeXT developed to run on its range of proprietary computers, such as the NeXTcube....
 and OPENSTEP
OpenStep

OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface specification for an object-oriented operating system that uses any modern operating system as its core, principally developed by NeXT with Sun Microsystems....
. It is now distributed with Mac OS X
Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a line of computer operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., and since 2002 has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems....
 since Apple Inc.'s acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep
GNUstep

GNUstep is a free software implementation of NeXT's OpenStep Objective-C libraries , widget toolkit, and application development tools not only for Unix-like operating systems, but also for Microsoft Windows....
 application for other Unix
Unix

Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna....
-compatible operating systems such as Linux
Linux

Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL license...
. It is powered by Apple Advanced Typography
Apple Advanced Typography

Apple Advanced Typography is Apple Inc's computer software for advanced font rendering, supporting internationalization and complex features for typographers, a successor to Apple's little-used QuickDraw GX font technology of the mid-1990s....
 and has advanced typography features not found in even high-end word processors such as Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is Microsoft's word processor computer software. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems....
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It replaces the text editor of previous Macintosh operating system
Operating system

An operating system is an interface between hardware and applications; it is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the limited resources of the computer....
s, SimpleText
SimpleText

SimpleText is the native text editor for the Classic Mac OS. SimpleText allows editing including text formatting , fonts, and sizes. It can be considered similar to Windows' WordPad application....
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TextEdit is a simple, open source
Open source

Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product's source . Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical Strategy element of their business operations....
 word processor
Word processor

A word processor is a computer Application software used for the production of any sort of printable material.Word processor may also refer to an obsolete type of stand-alone office machine, popular in the 1970s and 80s, combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of an electric typewriter with a dedicated computer for th...
 and text editor
Text editor

A text editor is a type of software application used for editing plain text files.Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code....
, first featured in NeXT
NeXT

NeXT, Inc. was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets....
's NEXTSTEP
NEXTSTEP

Nextstep was the original Object-oriented operating system, computer multitasking operating system that NeXT developed to run on its range of proprietary computers, such as the NeXTcube....
 and OPENSTEP
OpenStep

OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface specification for an object-oriented operating system that uses any modern operating system as its core, principally developed by NeXT with Sun Microsystems....
. It is now distributed with Mac OS X
Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a line of computer operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., and since 2002 has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems....
 since Apple Inc.'s acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep
GNUstep

GNUstep is a free software implementation of NeXT's OpenStep Objective-C libraries , widget toolkit, and application development tools not only for Unix-like operating systems, but also for Microsoft Windows....
 application for other Unix
Unix

Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna....
-compatible operating systems such as Linux
Linux

Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL license...
. It is powered by Apple Advanced Typography
Apple Advanced Typography

Apple Advanced Typography is Apple Inc's computer software for advanced font rendering, supporting internationalization and complex features for typographers, a successor to Apple's little-used QuickDraw GX font technology of the mid-1990s....
 and has advanced typography features not found in even high-end word processors such as Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is Microsoft's word processor computer software. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems....
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It replaces the text editor of previous Macintosh operating system
Operating system

An operating system is an interface between hardware and applications; it is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the limited resources of the computer....
s, SimpleText
SimpleText

SimpleText is the native text editor for the Classic Mac OS. SimpleText allows editing including text formatting , fonts, and sizes. It can be considered similar to Windows' WordPad application....
. TextEdit reads and writes documents in Rich Text Format
Rich Text Format

The Rich Text Format is a document file format file format developed by Microsoft in 1987 for cross-platform document interchange. Most word processors are able to read and write RTF documents....
, Rich Text Format Directory
Rich Text Format Directory

Rich Text Format Directory, also known as RTFD , is a primary document format of TextEdit, an application software native to NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X which has also been ported to other versions of Unix....
 and plain text
Plain text

In computing, plain text is a term used for an ordinary "unformatted" sequential file readable as textual material without much processing.The Character encoding has traditionally been either ASCII, one of its many derivatives such as ISO/IEC 646 etc., or sometimes EBCDIC....
 files, Microsoft Word document format and HTML
HTML

HTML, an Acronym and initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document?by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on?and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded '...
, and can open (but not save) 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
Mac OS X v10.3

Mac OS X version 10.3 ?Panther? was the fourth Software version of Mac OS X, Apple Inc. desktop and server operating system. It followed Mac OS X v10.2 ?Jaguar? and preceded Mac OS X v10.4 ?Tiger?....
 added the ability to read and write documents in Word format, and the version in Mac OS X v10.4
Mac OS X v10.4

Mac OS X version 10.4 ?Tiger? was the fifth Software version of Mac OS X, Apple Inc. desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers....
 the ability to read and write Word XML documents
Microsoft Office XML formats

The Microsoft Office XML formats are XML-based document formats introduced in versions of Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007. Microsoft Office XP introduced a new XML format for storing Excel spreadsheets and Office 2003 added an XML-based format for Word documents....
. The version included in Mac OS X v10.5
Mac OS X v10.5

Mac OS X version 10.5 "Leopard" is the sixth Software version of Mac OS X, Apple Inc. desktop and server operating system for Apple Macintosh computers, and the successor to Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger"....
 includes read and write support for Office Open XML and OpenDocument Text
OpenDocument

The OpenDocument format is a file format for electronic office documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentation programs and word processor documents....
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Source code

Apple distributes TextEdit's source code
Source code

In computer science, source code is any collection of statements or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming language....
 as part of the documentation of its integrated development environment
Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment also known as integrated design environment or integrated debugging environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development....
 (IDE) Xcode
Xcode

Xcode is a suite of tools for developing software on Mac OS X, developed by Apple Inc.. Xcode 3.0, the latest major version, is bundled free with Mac OS X v10.5, though it is not installed by default....
. On the internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
, the source code to a version of TextEdit enhanced to demonstrate the calling of Quartz Composer
Apple Developer Tools

The Apple Developer Tools are a suite of software tools from Apple Inc. to aid in making software titles for the Mac OS X platform....
 compositions from the Cocoa
Cocoa (API)

Cocoa is one of Apple Inc.'s native object-oriented application program environment for the Mac OS X operating system. It is one of four major Application programming interfaces available for Mac OS X; the others are Carbon , POSIX , and Java platform....
 API
Application programming interface

An application programming interface is a set of subroutine, data structures, class and/or Protocol provided by library and/or operating system Service s in order to support the building of applications....
 can be found at .

Logo

The high resolution TextEdit logo for Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard) features an extract from Apple's Think Different
Think Different

"Think Different" is an advertising slogan created for Apple Computer in 1997 by the Los Angeles office of advertising agency TBWAChiatDay.It was used in a famous television commercial, several print advertisements, and several television advertisements for Apple products....
 ad campaign:

See also

  • List of word processors
    List of word processors

    The following is a list of word processors....
  • Comparison of word processors
    Comparison of word processors

    General informationThis table provides general information about selected word processors....
  • Office Open XML software
    Office Open XML software

    This is an overview of software support for the Office Open XML format, an open format document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents....
  • OpenDocument software
    OpenDocument software

    This is an overview of software support for the OpenDocument format, an open format document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents....


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