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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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It’s possible for a program to handle both plain text and rich text.
Which write does, and on occasion was accidentally used to create malformed plaintext files that borked many a device
So they made sure to include at least one explicitly plaintext only editor, to prevent such mistakes.