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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 writes documents in Rich Text Format, RTFD (RTF with attachments in a bundle) format, and Microsoft Word format, as well as ASCII, various Unicode encodings and ISO-Latin, among others and HTML (via WebCore), and also includes the ability to read SimpleText files as well as create and edit them through (Format>Make Plain Text) or (⇧⌘T). OS X also includes vi, pico as well as other terminal-based text editors.

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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