Re: Apple hiring $MS programmers?

Barry Margolin wrote:
In article <fq7out$73e$1@xxxxxxxx>, nospamatall <nospamatall@xxxxxx>
wrote:

My problem with it is not about how you choose, just that .txt is not
default and not even present until you change something.

I think their reasoning is that it doesn't make sense to try to save a
document with fonts and styles as plain text, because you'd lose all the
formatting. So first you have to change the format of the document
you're editing to remove all that extra stuff, and then it's safe to
save it that way.


I can see the sense in that, so if you open an rtf it should save as
rtf, which it does, but why would a text editor have rich text as
default anyway, and not even have plain text as an option in the default
dialog? It's really a word processor not a text editor.

Andy
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