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Interesting. Wordpad could always handle LF-only well enough and came with Windows 95 and onwards so you could always use that. Not sure why that wasn’t more wi

Interesting. Wordpad could always handle LF-only well enough and came with Windows 95 and onwards so you could always use that. Not sure why that wasn’t more widely known. (Though on newly added lines it did add CR+LF rather than staying consistent to the source file).

jchw 7y ago
The trouble with Wordpad was that it was not a good editor for plaintext. It was clearly designed for rich text. I preferred third party editors very greatly.
- Paperweight 7y ago
  Kind of like TextEdit is on macOS is today (the one bundled with the OS). It's slightly annoying that you have to twiddle a bunch of the preferences to make it a workable plaintext editor. Apple should just delete its rich text functionality, now that they bundle a real word processor (Pages) with the OS.
  - valleyer 7y ago
    IMO, you have to twiddle exactly one preference, exactly once, to make TextEdit a workable plaintext editor. In TextEdit -> Preferences..., select the "Plain text" radio button. New documents are created as plain text now.
    - Paperweight 7y ago
      Kind of, but to be safe you have to change 12 preferences from the defaults, IMO. New Document: Format: Plain Text (select) Options: Check spelling as you type (disable) Correct spelling automatically (disable) Smart copy/paste (disable) Smart quotes (disable) Smart dashes (disable) Text replacement (disable) Open and Save: When Opening a File: Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text (enable) Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text (enable) When Saving a File: Add ".txt" extension to plain text files (disable) Plain Text File Encoding: Opening files = Unicode (UTF-8) Saving files = Unicode (UTF-8)
  - WhiteOwlLion 7y ago
    I got sick of textedit and installed open source atom
- aeyes 7y ago
  Also, back in the day opening a 5MB logfile in Wordpad was a recipe for stalling your system.
  - ygra 7y ago
    Back in the day Notepad had a 32K file size limit as well. No stalling, but also no viewing your log file that way.
cpach 7y ago
IIRC Wordpad could handle LF but not UTF-8 and Notepad could handle UTF-8 but not LF (^_^)
signal11 7y ago
I was aware, but 3rd party editors like Notepad2 or Notepad++ were much better than Wordpad for lightweight program editing as they also had syntax highlighting, auto-indent, etc.

jchw 7y ago

The trouble with Wordpad was that it was not a good editor for plaintext. It was clearly designed for rich text. I preferred third party editors very greatly.

Paperweight 7y ago
Kind of like TextEdit is on macOS is today (the one bundled with the OS). It's slightly annoying that you have to twiddle a bunch of the preferences to make it a workable plaintext editor. Apple should just delete its rich text functionality, now that they bundle a real word processor (Pages) with the OS.
- valleyer 7y ago
  IMO, you have to twiddle exactly one preference, exactly once, to make TextEdit a workable plaintext editor. In TextEdit -> Preferences..., select the "Plain text" radio button. New documents are created as plain text now.
  - Paperweight 7y ago
    Kind of, but to be safe you have to change 12 preferences from the defaults, IMO. New Document: Format: Plain Text (select) Options: Check spelling as you type (disable) Correct spelling automatically (disable) Smart copy/paste (disable) Smart quotes (disable) Smart dashes (disable) Text replacement (disable) Open and Save: When Opening a File: Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text (enable) Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text (enable) When Saving a File: Add ".txt" extension to plain text files (disable) Plain Text File Encoding: Opening files = Unicode (UTF-8) Saving files = Unicode (UTF-8)
- WhiteOwlLion 7y ago
  I got sick of textedit and installed open source atom
aeyes 7y ago
Also, back in the day opening a 5MB logfile in Wordpad was a recipe for stalling your system.
- ygra 7y ago
  Back in the day Notepad had a 32K file size limit as well. No stalling, but also no viewing your log file that way.

cpach 7y ago

IIRC Wordpad could handle LF but not UTF-8 and Notepad could handle UTF-8 but not LF (^_^)

signal11 7y ago

I was aware, but 3rd party editors like Notepad2 or Notepad++ were much better than Wordpad for lightweight program editing as they also had syntax highlighting, auto-indent, etc.