Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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Initial release | July 1996OPENSTEP 4.0[1] | with the release of
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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 |
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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.