Tuesday 18 December 2007

Open source text editor

Just a quick post to let you know something I didn't know until yesterday, which I thought was pretty cool.
I was reviewing my text editors for my web development work, as Smultron has gone over to Leopard only. I was plugging various strings into Google; things like "open source text editor mac" and I came across articles talking about TextEdit, which I thought was a bit odd. After a bit of further reading and rummaging around with Xcode, I discovered that indeed TextEdit is open source and the source code is included with every mac (that has installed Xcode).
You can find it in Developer/Examples/AppKit/TextEdit

What a nice little easter egg.