TextEdit

TextEdit


Developer(s)	Apple Inc.
Initial release	July 1996; 27 years ago (1996-07) with the release of OPENSTEP 4.0^[1]

Stable release	1.18 / 24 October 2022; 17 months ago (24 October 2022)

Operating system	Originally released for NeXTSTEP, released for macOS after Apple's purchase of NeXT; Ported to all GNUstep systems (up to 1.6)
Type	Text editor, word processor
License	BSD-3-Clause
Website	developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/TextEdit

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TextEdit is an open-source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. 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.^[2] It is powered by Apple Advanced Typography.