TextEdit

TextEdit is one of Apple is sold with an operating system Mac OS X program for editing purpose.

Description

TextEdit in OS X replaces the previously supplied program SimpleText, which served to be able to display texts accompanying programs. Compared to Simple Text TextEdit was expanded. Range of functions TextEdit is comparable to Microsoft's WordPad.

TextEdit provides drag and drop text, images and attachments, viewing and editing documents of various formats. Apart from plain text documents are supported RTF, DOC, and since Mac OS X 10.5 Open Document Format and DOCX. In addition, TextEdit supports importing Simple text and HTML files.

As already SimpleText allows TextEdit the reading of texts, plus it uses the voice of the operating system. In addition, provided by the operating system spelling checker is utilized.

TextEdit supports font technology AAT ( AAT special functions are accessible via the Font Palette ).

Formation

Originally TextEdit present in NeXTSTEP and running today under GNUstep. In the classic Mac OS TextEdit was a component of the Macintosh kit for programmers. TextEdit asked a simple text formatting and editing functions are available, ie Text input, text selection, copying, cutting and pasting, everything but only for text up to 32 KB. TextEdit was intended as a building block for programs that were not primarily of text processing, and formed the basis for the SimpleText program.

Trivia

The high resolution Icon TextEdit shows from Mac OS X 10.5 the text of Think Different.