Editing TextEdit (section)

{{short description|Open-source word processor and text editor}}
{{about|a specific software title|text editors in general|Text editor}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox software
| name = TextEdit
| logo = TextEdit icon.png
| screenshot = TextEdit 1.19 screenshot.png
| screenshot_alt=A text editor containing the text of Wikipedia's TextEdit article
| caption=Screenshot of TextEdit 1.19
| developer = [[Apple Inc.]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1996|07}} with the release of [[OPENSTEP]] 4.0<ref>{{cite web|title=Logiciels NeXT (Fr)|url=https://www.levenez.com/NeXTSTEP/Logiciels.html |access-date=March 25, 2019}}</ref>
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|edit|reference|Q519774|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|Q519774|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}}}
| operating_system = Originally released for [[NeXTSTEP]], released for [[macOS]] after [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s purchase of [[NeXT]]; <br />Ported to all [[GNUstep]] systems (up to 1.6)
| genre = [[Text editor]], [[word processor]]
| license = [[BSD licenses|BSD-3-Clause]]
| website = {{URL|https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/TextEdit}}
}}
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'''TextEdit''' is an [[open-source software|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]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nongnu.org/backbone/apps.html |title=Backbone—A GNUstep based desktop environment |access-date=September 4, 2007}}</ref> It is powered by [[Apple Advanced Typography]].