Not to mention that it takes ages to open a file that's even a few megabytes in size (as a programmer I wouldn't dare ask what's going on inside, for fear of ni

Not to mention that it takes ages to open a file that's even a few megabytes in size (as a programmer I wouldn't dare ask what's going on inside, for fear of nightmares). The irony is that wordpad both handles newlines properly, and can open large files. So it trumps notepad on almost everything. Of course, by the time you've gotten to that point, you've probably installed a better editor.