[TonyTrapp]

Win9x Notepad in particular can only load files up to 64KB in size (edit: and supports only ANSI encoding, no Unicode). There were some actually useful additions to it up until Windows 10 or so - for example being able to handle LF (in addition to CRLF) line endings. But yeah, everything added in Windows 11 is just pure bloat.

[SomeUserName432]

I find notepad useful for sanitising clipboard content.

No bold text, italics, bullet points, invisible html.. Just get the text and can copy it to paste again somewhere else.

Ala Cmd+Shift+V on Mac

[setopt]

I somewhat regularly use the almost embarrassing key sequence Ctrl-C Ctrl-L Ctrl-V Ctrl-A Ctrl-X to sanitize text I’ve copied from a browser, using the address field to remove any formatting.

[xnorswap]

You can Ctrl+shift+v to paste plain text in windows.

[SoKamil]

I always used browser address bar for that. But giving it a second thought, I uploaded the data to Google servers.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

Win+r, ctrl+v, ctrl+a, ctrl+x, esc does this without spawning a non ephemeral window

[pjmlp]

The reason being it is a plain text edit component, with a window around it, hence the limitation.

[zabzonk]

Yep. Back when I used to teach Windows programming in C commercially, the course exercise was to replicate notepad. It was surprising how many of its features you could implement in a week-long course, especially as many of our clients were no great shakes at C.

[literalAardvark]

Notepad is so slow at loading large files that it crashing quickly is a feature.

The windows 7-10 versions that could open anything would just get stuck for half an hour when you opened the wrong thing in them, which was rather annoying.