A screenshot of Apple's TextEdit.

TextEdit is a simple word processor, first featured in NeXT's NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with Mac OS X since Apple's acquisition of NeXT and available as a GNUstep application for other unix-compatible operating systems such as Linux. A screenshot of TextEdit in Mac OS X. This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... A screenshot of TextEdit in Mac OS X. This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... A word processor (also more formally known as a document preparation system) is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of viewable or printed material. ... The NeXT logo, designed by Paul Rand. ... NeXTSTEP Desktop NeXTSTEP is the original object-oriented, multitasking operating system that NeXT Computer, Inc. ... OpenStep is an open object-oriented API specification for an object-oriented operating system that uses any modern operating system as its core, principly developed by NeXT. It is important to recognize that while OpenStep is an API specification, OPENSTEP (all capitalized) is a specific implementation of this OpenStep developed... Mac OS X is the latest version of the Mac OS, the operating system software for Macintosh computers. ... Tux, a penguin, is the official Linux mascot. ...

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 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. Macintosh can refer to: Apple Macintosh (computer) McIntosh (apple cultivar) Charles Macintosh (Scottish inventor) Mackintosh (raincoat) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... SimpleText is the native text editor for classic Macintosh Operating System. ... RTF (usually referred to as such) stands for Rich Text Format, a document file format developed by Microsoft at least as early as 1987 for cross-platform document interchange that most text processing programs are able to read and write. ... In cryptography, plaintext is information used as input to an encryption algorithm; the output is termed ciphertext. ... In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ... In computing terms, a spelling checker (also spell checker) is a software program designed to verify the spelling of words in a file, helping a user ensure his/her spelling is correct. ... A screenshot of Mac OS X v10. ... Microsoft Word 2003 features a number of improvements over earlier Word packages. ...

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. A character encoding is a code that pairs a set of natural language characters (such as an alphabet or syllabary) with a set of something else, such as numbers or electrical pulses. ... In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ...

Mac OS X, as a Unix-based operating system, also includes emacs, vi and pico as well as other terminal-based text editors. UNIX is a portable, multi-tasking and multi-user computer operating system originally developed by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... The GNU Emacs interface, running in a graphical environment. ... vi is a screen-oriented text editor computer program written by Bill Joy in 1976 for an early BSD release. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device. ...

External links

• c2: TextEdit (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TextEdit)