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SimpleText

SimpleText under Mac OS 9
Developer:Apple Computer
Latest release:1.4
OS:System 7.x, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X
Genre:Text editor
License:Proprietary
SimpleText is the native text editor for the Classic Mac OS. SimpleText allows editing including text formatting (underline, italic, bold, etc), fonts, and sizes. It can be considered similar to Windows' WordPad 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 and even QuickTime movies. SimpleText can even record short sound samples and, using Apple's PlainTalk speech system, read out text in English.

SimpleText evolved from TeachText 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, SimpleText is replaced by the more powerful TextEdit, which reads and/or writes more document formats. Mac OS X also includes common Unix-like text editors, such as vi and pico.

Apple has released the source code for a Carbon version of SimpleText in the Panther (10.3) Developer Tools. If the Developer Tools are installed, it can be found at /Developer/Examples/Carbon/SimpleText.

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text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.

Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code.

Plain text files vs.


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text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.

Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code.

Plain text files vs.


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WordPad is a simple word processor that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 upwards. It is more advanced than Notepad, which is rather a basic text editor, but not at all as advanced as Microsoft Word. It originated in Windows 1.0x as Write.
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PICT

File extension: .pict, .pct, .pic
MIME type: image/x-pict
Type code: PICT
Uniform Type Identifier: com.apple.pict
Developed by: Apple Computer
Type of format: graphics

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Maintainer: Apple Inc.

OS: Mac OS X, Windows XP and Vista

Use: Multimedia framework
License: Proprietary
Website: www.apple.com/quicktime/ QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc.
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PlainTalk is the collective name for several speech synthesis (MacInTalk) and speech recognition technologies developed by Apple Computer.

In 1990, Apple invested a lot of work and money into speech recognition technology, hiring many respected researchers in the
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TeachText application is a simple text editor made by Apple Computer bundled with System 6 and earlier, and now runs only in Classic under Mac OS X. Most likely due to its widespread application in opening up "Read Me" documents which taught
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A readme (or read me) file contains information about other files in a directory or archive and is very commonly distributed with computer software. Such a file is usually a text file called README.TXT, README.1ST, READ.
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The Edit application is a simple text editor for the Apple Macintosh.

SimpleText evolved from TeachText 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
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TextEdit is a simple, open source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with Mac OS X since Apple Inc.'s acquisition of NeXT and available as a GNUstep application for other Unix-compatible operating systems such as
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text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.

Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code.

Plain text files vs.


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VI is the Roman numeral for the number six. VI may also refer to:

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Pico is a text editor for Unix computer systems, and is integrated with the Pine email client, designed by the Office of Computing and Communications at the University of Washington.
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Carbon is Apple Inc.'s procedural API for the Macintosh operating system, which permits a good degree of forward and backward compatibility between source code written to run on the older and now dated Classic Mac OS (Version 8.1 and later), and the newer Mac OS X.
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The following is a list of text editors. For a list of outliners, see that article's external links.

Graphical and Text User Interface

The following editors can either be used with a Graphical user interface or a Text user interface.
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? 3.7 Free GPL Yes
Diakonos Pistos 2004 0.8.3 Free GPL Yes
e Alexander Stigsen 2005 1.0.1 $34.95 Proprietary No
ed Ken Thompson 1970 unchanged from original Free / Yes
EditPlus Sangil Kim 1998 2.31 $30 Shareware No
EmEditor Pro Emurasoft, Inc. ? 6.00.3 $39.
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