TextEdit can't actually save as text

So, TextEdit has been incredibly poorly named.
How can I create and edit a text file on Leopard?

Wow, thankyou.
And to think I was having so much fun trying to use 'HTML' to trick it into saving as text...
'untick "hide extension", delete ".html" from filename, 'untick "hide extension", delete.. hey wait a minute!'

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Many other applications keeps crashing in Leopard, too often...
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