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TextEdit
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| Developer: | Apple Computer |
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| Latest release: | 1.4 (220) / 2005 |
| OS: | Mac OS X |
| Use: | Text editor, word processor |
| License: | Bundled with Mac OS X |
| Website: | http://www.apple.com/macosx/ |
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, Rich Text Format Directory and plaintext files, 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 Word format, and the version in Mac OS X v10.4 the ability to read and write Word XML documents. The Version shipped in the Leopard Developers Preview includes OpenDocument Text read and write support.
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. TextEdit automatically adjusts letter spacing in addition to word spacing while justifying text. This letter spacing feature is usually only found in higher end Desktop Publishing programs. This unique letter spacing however can't be adjusted or controlled as it can in a Desktop Publishing program. The letter spacing can usually only be noticed when using a narrow text field in TextEdit. TextEdit does not support multiple columns of text.
Mac OS X also includes emacs, vi, pico and other terminal-based text editors, as it is a Unix-based operating system.
Apple distributes TextEdit's source code as part of the documentation of its 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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