TextEdit, the Glossary
TextEdit is an open-source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP.[1]
Table of Contents
43 relations: Apple Advanced Typography, Apple Inc., BSD licenses, Character encoding, Classic Mac OS, Cocoa text system, Comparison of word processors, GNUstep, HTML, Integrated development environment, Internet, Linux, List of software that supports Office Open XML, List of software that supports OpenDocument, List of word processors, Mac OS X Leopard, Mac OS X Panther, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Tiger, MacOS, Microsoft Office XML formats, NeXT, NeXTSTEP, Office Open XML, Open-source software, OpenDocument, OpenStep, OS X Lion, Plain text, Rich Text Format, Rich Text Format Directory, SimpleText, Source code, Spell checker, Text editor, TextEdit (API), Think different, Unicode, Unix, UTF-16, UTF-8, Word processor, Xcode.
- Free word processors
- MacOS word processors
- MacOS-only free software
- MacOS-only software made by Apple Inc.
- Software that uses GNUstep
Apple Advanced Typography
Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) is Apple Inc.'s computer technology for advanced font rendering, supporting internationalization and complex features for typographers, a successor to Apple's little-used QuickDraw GX font technology of the mid-1990s.
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
BSD licenses
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software.
Character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers.
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Classic Mac OS
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9.
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Cocoa text system
The Cocoa text system (formerly known simply by the primary class name NSText) is the linked network of classes, protocols, interfaces and objects that provide typography and text field editing capabilities and to Cocoa applications on Apple's macOS, where it is the primary text-handling system.
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Comparison of word processors
This is a comparison of word processing software.
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GNUstep
GNUstep is a free software implementation of the Cocoa (formerly OpenStep) Objective-C frameworks, widget toolkit, and application development tools for Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
Integrated development environment
An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software development.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
List of software that supports Office Open XML
This is an overview of software support for the Office Open XML format, a document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents.
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List of software that supports OpenDocument
This is an overview of software support for the OpenDocument format, an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents.
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List of word processors
The following is a list of notable word processors.
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Mac OS X Leopard
Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5) is the sixth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.
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Mac OS X Panther
Mac OS X Panther (version 10.3) is the fourth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system.
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) (also referred to as OS X Snow Leopard) is the seventh major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.
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Mac OS X Tiger
Mac OS X Tiger (version 10.4) is the 5th major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers.
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MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
Microsoft Office XML formats
The Microsoft Office XML formats are XML-based document formats (or XML schemas) introduced in versions of Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007.
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NeXT
NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California that specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed web software.
NeXTSTEP
NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD.
Office Open XML
Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML) is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Ecma International standardized the initial version as ECMA-376. ISO and IEC standardized later versions as ISO/IEC 29500.
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.
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OpenDocument
The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, standardized as ISO 26300, is an open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics and using ZIP-compressed XML files.
OpenStep
OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification developed by NeXT.
OS X Lion
OS X Lion, also known as Mac OS X Lion, (version 10.7) is the eighth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers.
Plain text
In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.). It may also include a limited number of "whitespace" characters that affect simple arrangement of text, such as spaces, line breaks, or tabulation characters.
Rich Text Format
) As an example, the following RTF code would be rendered as follows: This is some bold text.
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Rich Text Format Directory
Rich Text Format Directory, also known as RTFD (due to its extension.rtfd), or Rich Text Format with Attachments, is a primary document format of TextEdit, an application native to NeXTSTEP and macOS which has also been ported to other versions of Unix.
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SimpleText
SimpleText is the native text editor for the Apple classic Mac OS.
Source code
In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language.
Spell checker
In software, a spell checker (or spelling checker or spell check) is a software feature that checks for misspellings in a text.
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Text editor
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text.
TextEdit (API)
TextEdit was the name of a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) in the classic Mac OS for performing text editing.
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Think different
"Think different" is an advertising slogan used from 1997 to 2002 by Apple Computer, Inc., now named Apple Inc. The campaign was created by the Los Angeles office of advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day.
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Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
UTF-16
UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode (in fact this number of code points is dictated by the design of UTF-16).
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication.
Word processor
A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.
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Xcode
Xcode is Apple's integrated development environment (IDE) for macOS, used to develop software for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. TextEdit and Xcode are macOS text editors and macOS-only software made by Apple Inc..
See also
Free word processors
- AbiWord
- Calligra Words
- EZ Word
- GNU TeXmacs
- JWPce
- KWord
- LibreOffice Writer
- LyX
- Ted (word processor)
- TextEdit
- WordGrinder
MacOS word processors
- AbiWord
- Bean (software)
- Collabora Online
- GNU TeXmacs
- Hangul (word processor)
- IBM Lotus Symphony
- Jedit X
- LibreOffice Writer
- Mellel
- Microsoft Word
- Nisus Writer
- Pages (word processor)
- Scrivener (software)
- Storyist
- TextEdit
- TextMaker
- Thinkfree Office
MacOS-only free software
- Adium
- BibDesk
- Camino (web browser)
- Cog (software)
- Colloquy (software)
- Cyberduck
- Fugu (software)
- Google Quick Search Box
- GrandPerspective
- IINA
- ITerm2
- Journler
- KisMAC
- Munki (software)
- NeoOffice
- Notational Velocity
- OpenEmu
- OsiriX
- Paintbrush (software)
- Perian
- PlayOnMac
- Q (emulator)
- Quicksilver (software)
- ResKnife
- SIMBL
- Seashore (software)
- Shiira
- Skim (software)
- SubEthaEdit
- TeXShop
- Telephone (application)
- TextEdit
- TextMate
MacOS-only software made by Apple Inc.
- Aperture (software)
- Apple Configurator
- Apple Open Directory
- Apple Remote Desktop
- Calculator (Apple)
- Calendar (Apple)
- Color (software)
- Compressor (software)
- Contacts (Apple)
- DVD Studio Pro
- Final Cut Express
- Final Cut Pro
- Final Cut Studio
- Font Book
- Front Row (software)
- Grapher
- IChat
- IDVD
- IMovie
- IPhoto
- ISync
- IWeb
- IWork
- Ipconfig
- Keynote (presentation software)
- Logic Pro
- Logic Studio
- Messages (Apple)
- Motion (software)
- Numbers (spreadsheet)
- Pages (word processor)
- QuickTime Broadcaster
- QuickTime Streaming Server
- Rosetta (software)
- Sherlock (software)
- Soundtrack Pro
- System Image Utility
- System Settings
- TextEdit
- Time Machine (macOS)
- VoiceOver
- WaveBurner
- Workgroup Manager
- XQuartz
- Xcode
Software that uses GNUstep
- Blink (SIP client)
- GNUMail
- TeXShop
- TextEdit
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextEdit
Also known as Apple TextEdit, Text edit.