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SimpleText

SimpleText is the native text editor Text editor

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 for the Classic Mac OS Mac OS

Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a series of graphical user interface [i] ... 

. SimpleText allows editing including text formatting , fonts, and sizes. It can be considered similar to Windows' WordPad WordPad

[i] that is included with almost all versions of [[Microsoft Windows]... 

 application. In later versions it also gained additional read only display capabilities for PICT files, as well as other Mac OS built-in formats like Quickdraw GX and QTIF, 3DMF QuickDraw 3D

QuickDraw 3D, or QD3D for short, is a 3D graphics [i] API [i] developed by Apple Computer [i], ori ... 

 and even QuickTime QuickTime

QuickTime is a multimedia framework [i] developed by Apple Computer [i], capable of handling various for ... 

 movies. SimpleText can even record short sound samples and, using Apple's PlainTalk PlainTalk

PlainTalk is the collective name for several speech synthesis [i] and speech recognition [i] technologie ... 

 speech system, read out text in English. SimpleText evolved from TeachText TeachText

[i] that ran on [[Mac OS 9]... 

 which was used to distribute Readme documents, which was derived from the Edit application, a simple editing application distributed with the earliest of Macintoshes to demonstrate the use of the Macintosh interface.

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SimpleText is the native text editor Text editor

A text editor is software application [i] used for editing plain text [i]. ... 

 for the Classic Mac OS Mac OS

Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a series of graphical user interface [i]... 

. SimpleText allows editing including text formatting , fonts, and sizes. It can be considered similar to Windows' WordPad WordPad

[i] that is included with almost all versions of [[Microsoft Windows]... 

 application. In later versions it also gained additional read only display capabilities for PICT files, as well as other Mac OS built-in formats like Quickdraw GX and QTIF, 3DMF QuickDraw 3D

QuickDraw 3D, or QD3D for short, is a 3D graphics [i] API [i] developed by Apple Computer [i], ori ... 

 and even QuickTime QuickTime

QuickTime is a multimedia framework [i] developed by Apple Computer [i], capable of handling various for ... 

 movies. SimpleText can even record short sound samples and, using Apple's PlainTalk PlainTalk

PlainTalk is the collective name for several speech synthesis [i] and speech recognition [i] technologie... 

 speech system, read out text in English.

SimpleText evolved from TeachText TeachText

[i] that ran on [[Mac OS 9]... 

 which was used to distribute Readme documents, which was derived from the Edit application, a simple editing application distributed with the earliest of Macintoshes to demonstrate the use of the Macintosh interface.

In Mac OS X Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a line of proprietary [i], graphical operating system [i]s developed, ... 

, SimpleText is replaced by the more powerful TextEdit TextEdit

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, which reads and writes documents in Rich Text Format Rich Text Format

The Rich Text Format is a proprietary [i] document file format [i] developed and o ... 

, RTFD Rich Text Format Directory

Rich Text Format Directory, also known as RTFD, is the primary document format of TextEdit [i], an ... 

  format, and Microsoft Word Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word, or Microsoft Office Word, is Microsoft [i]'s flagship word processing [i] ... 

 format, as well as ASCII ASCII

ASCII , generally pronounced [i] , is a character encoding [i] based on the English alphabet [i] ... 

, various Unicode Unicode

Unicode is an industry standard [i] designed to allow text [i] and symbols from all of the writing systems [i] ... 

 encodings and ISO-Latin, among others and HTML HTML

In computing, HyperText Markup Language is a predominant markup language [i] for the creation of web page [i] ... 

 , and also includes the ability to read SimpleText files as well as create and edit them through or . OS X also includes vi Vi

vi is a screen-oriented text editor [i] computer program [i] written by Bill Joy [i] in 1976 [i] for an... 

, pico as well as other terminal Computer terminal

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-based text editors.

Apple has released the source code for a Carbon Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element [i] in the periodic table [i] that has the symbol [i] C' ... 

 version of SimpleText in the Panther Developer Tools. If the Developer Tools are installed, it can be found at /Developer/Examples/Carbon/SimpleText.

See also

  • List of text editors List of text editors

    The following is a list of text editor [i]s. ... 

  • Comparison of text editors

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