On the Internet, the source code of TextEdit can be found in Apple's Mac Developer Library. This was replaced by a blank sheet of notebook paper in 10.10 (Yosemite).Īpple formerly distributed TextEdit's source code as part of the documentation of its integrated development environment (IDE) Xcode. The high-resolution TextEdit 1.5 icon found in Mac OS X versions starting with 10.5 (Leopard) features an extract from Apple's ' Think different' ad campaign. TextEdit does not support multiple columns of text. TextEdit automatically adjusts letter spacing in addition to word spacing while justifying text. The version included in Mac OS X v10.7 added versioning of files, and Autosave similar to iOS.įormatted 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 ( UTF-8 and UTF-16). The version included in Mac OS X v10.6 added automatic spelling correction, support for data detectors, and text transformations. The version included in Mac OS X v10.5 added read and write support for Office Open XML and OpenDocument Text. 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 added the ability to read and write Word XML documents. It also has access to the operating system's built-in spell-checking service. TextEdit uses the Cocoa text system to read and write documents in Rich Text Format (RTF), Rich Text Format Directory, plain text, and HTML formats, and can open (but not save) old SimpleText files.

TextEdit replaced the text editor of previous Macintosh operating systems, SimpleText. It is powered by Apple Advanced Typography. It is now distributed with macOS since Apple Inc.'s acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep application for other Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. TextEdit is an open-source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP.

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