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Open-source word processor and text editor
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's acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep application for other Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It is powered by Apple Advanced Typography. Wikipedia →
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- 📕TEXTEDIT, a complete word processing system in kit formIrwin Rappaport · 1982
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