TextEdit

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Template:Infobox Software 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 Computers' 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 with attachments as well as plaintext, Microsoft Word document format and HTML, 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 added the ability to read and write documents in Microsoft Word format.

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, as a Unix-based operating system, also includes emacs, vi and pico as well as other terminal-based text editors.

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Source code

Apple distributes TextEdit's source code as part of the documentation of its free (as in beer) integrated development environment (IDE) 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 Apple's developer website.

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