alt Hacker NewsTextEdit has its roots in OPENSTEP, where it was used as kind of a demo application of the text views IIRC. It even came with source code, as did Chess by the way.
So I guess a comparison between TextEdit and Pages doesn't make too much sense probably, they're really different things.
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dchest • today at 11:54 AM
Source code, published until OS X 10.9: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/TextE...
> TextEdit [...] was used as kind of a demo application of the text views IIRC. even came with source code, as did Chess by the way.
On the other side of the fence, WordPad initially came with source code as well, and was essentially a demo app for the rich edit control as well as the criminally underused text converters[1].
[1] https://www.malsmith.net/wincvt/