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SilasX | 1 month ago

This. It was infuriating to find Notepad got updated to a bloated app with rich text and Copilot. It's so different, it just should have been another program. The whole reason I use Notepad is because it's a simple, dumb, fast, predictable program. If I wanted the rich text, I would use any of the numerous other options!

And for the kicker, the update made it forget my font settings.

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mrec|1 month ago

Re "just another program" - the old Notepad was deliberately designed with minimal dependencies so that even if everything else in the system went to hell you'd still have a working editor to try and fix things.

SilasX|1 month ago

So, you're just screwed if you need a working editor in safe mode now?

wtetzner|1 month ago

Wasn't Wordpad the rich text editor on Windows?