TextEdit



TextEdit is a, first featured in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and now distributed with Mac OS X and macOS following Apple's acquisition of NeXT.

History
TextEdit replaced SimpleText, the text editor from classic Mac OS. TextEdit reads and writes documents in Rich Text Format and Rich Text Format with attachments as well as plain text and HTML, and can open (but not save) old SimpleText files. It also has access to the operating system's built-in service. The version included in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) added the ability to read and write documents in Microsoft Word format.

Formatted text, justification, and even the inclusion of graphics and other multimedia elements are supported by TextEdit, as well as its ability to read and write to different s, including Unicode.

Mac OS X, as a Unix-based operating system, also includes, and  as well as other terminal-based text editors.