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Beyond saving anything bigger than a sentence it really has no use. I almost dropped dead in shock to see they updated MS paint to Paint 3D, but then I realize
by winternett 7y ago
Beyond saving anything bigger than a sentence it really has no use.
I almost dropped dead in shock to see they updated MS paint to Paint 3D, but then I realized that Its still intentionally limited and severely clunky to encourage you to spend money on Photoshop. :/
- prepend 7y agoI prefer txt files for config and notes. I don’t care about formatting so word or word pad are too much. I also use notepad as my goto “paste without formatting” as it’s typically faster to wash the clipboard through notepad than use whatever “paste special” ui an app has.
- gallexme 7y agoIsn't it in most uis shift key +paste?
- Filligree 7y agoNotepad only supports CRLF, wordpad can read Unix-style files, which is a lot of files even on Windows. A great deal of software was written to unconditionally insert \n. Formatting isn't the only reason to use it. I never bother to try notepad.
- ChrisSD 7y agoI prefer something like notepad++ for config and notes. Syntax highlighting is useful for config files (especially larger ones). The auto storing of unsaved files is great for notes. Many of my notes are temporary but I still want them to survive a reboot when necessary. Plus I find tabs easier to manage when I have a lot of notes and files open. The Windows task switcher becomes awkward in that case.
- prepend 7y agoI prefer notepad++ over notepad, but notepad is always installed. If I’m on a computer for a long time, I’ll install notepad++. But most of the time I’m in transient computers that have notepad but not notepad++. It’s a similar preference to how I like vim. Vim is ubiquitous on *nix systems. Lots of better stuff, but I’m ok enough with vim.
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- RenRav 7y agoNotepad2 is good notepad replacement. A few options checked and it even looks the same. It feels somewhere between notepad and notepad++.
- vadansky 7y agoI use run for that as well, quicker to Windows+R, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+V
- netsharc 7y agoAh "washing the clipboard", I guess that's the term for it. I turn on the address toolbar on the taskbar (underneath all the icons); it's great to navigate to files/directories by typing (especially with auto-complete, which wasn't there on Windows 9x!), and I also use it for "clipboard washing".
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI call it "sanitizing clipboard", and I usually use either Win+R or browser address bar (Ctrl+L), whichever is quicker, for 95% cases, in which I have only one line of text to sanitize. In the remaining 5% cases, I go through Notepad. On Linux I don't have a Win+R equivalent, so I always use a browser or Emacs session, whichever quicker to switch to.
- tomashubelbauer 7y agoI used to use the browser address bar for this, too. Then browsers started sending the crap you paste in it to who knows where. I even used to paste passwords there to make sure they don't have leading or trailing characters unintentionally included. I'm sure at least some people do that to this day and Google and others have their logs full of passwords this way.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI did that thing with passwords too! Perhaps even when browsers were sending what you type in the address bar to some servers somewhere, but back before I knew about it.
- winternett 7y agoI'm not talking about txt format specifically... I'm talking about using Windows Notepad specifically... There are much better tools like Sublime Text or Notepad++
- deogeo 7y agoIntentionally limited how?
- nkrisc 7y agoIntentionally limited like how my car is intentionally limited by not having wings.
- winrid 7y agoI don't think that's the reason. MS wouldn't want to maintain the equivalent of PS and users would hate it.
- galaxyLogic 7y ago>Beyond saving anything bigger than a sentence it really has no use. It has a use for READING text-files
- stoolpigeon 7y agoI teach a class in a small high school about building websites. Right now I'm teaching CSS. For HTML and CSS I have the students use notepad or textedit. It's really nice to have a plain text editor that doesn't help them in any way, produces files that will work in the browser and they get to learn better I think. Maybe a small use case but one that makes me glad the tools exist.
- jmull 7y agoIt looks like notepad still only has one level of undo. I don't think that's reasonable for any kind of composition or editing.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoPeople used to use line editors on teletypes.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoThis is what version control is for.
- Raphmedia 7y agoI doubt that Microsoft has a partnership with Adobe. They are different companies. And the point is moot since you can install Gimp instead.
- basch 7y agoIf anyone is looking for a photoshop replacement, Photopea is shockingly good, maybe one of the best webapps I have ever used. https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/
- dingo_bat 7y agoIt's weird but I also felt that they left out simple, key features from paint3d just because they don't want to eat into other vendors' apps. They have very advanced smart select but you can't change the background color of a sticker. At least I couldn't figure it out. Maybe they didn't leave out features but just made them a bit harder to use than necessary. Paint3D is a really good app otherwise.
- NikolaNovak 7y agoInteresting perspective; FWIW, I have OneNote, Sublime, Word, and ToDoist installed on my computer, and use them daily. But I still fire up Notepad several times a day. It's responsiveness and simplicity still make it useful for me. Basically, if I have several screens open and need to quickly type something somewhere, I'll use Notepad; but I'll also use it for quick review of config or small log files, where again it's speed and simplicity beat Sublime's features and syntax highlighting. Also, I use it several times a day when I need to strip formatting in paste or otherwise do quick manipulation - granted, an edge case that perhaps shouldn't exist... but there it is anyway :)
- mark-r 7y agoTo me, the most compelling feature of Notepad is that it's installed automatically on every version of Windows. It's the MVP for a surprising number of tasks.
- RugnirViking 7y agoYes, its one of the best places to go on an unfamilliar computer to quickly get somewhere to paste data and/or edit it with a monospace font. I often find myself also just pasting old bits of text in there similar to how some people might leave old versions of code commented out while working on a replacement - its a sort of shelf/sidebar to place things that I might need later.
- sp332 7y agoNotepad got an update too. It now supports other line endings, UTF-8, wrap-around find-and-replace, more keyboard shortcuts, zooming, and various bug fixes.
- banana_giraffe 7y agoIt's limited because it's mostly just a wrapper around the default Windows edit control. Then again, it does have some strange little features. Like if you put the string ".LOG" at the top of a .txt file and open it again in Notepad, Notepad will insert the current date/time at the bottom of the file and move the cursor to the bottom. I can get that being a useful feature, kinda. It's like someone snuck an extra feature into Notepad and it never got caught.