The TextEdit app consists almost entirely of a single TextView I believe WordPad is the Windows equivalent, based on the RichEdit control. Another fun fact is

The TextEdit app consists almost entirely of a single TextView I believe WordPad is the Windows equivalent, based on the RichEdit control. Another fun fact is that RTF is basically the serialized form of NSAttributedString. The same is true of Windows' RichEdit control. In fact, it looks like Windows' implementation came first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format