Those applications are absolutely not suitable for text editing because they have a tendency to mangle the text encoding and other CR/LF characters. (I general

Those applications are absolutely not suitable for text editing because they have a tendency to mangle the text encoding and other CR/LF characters. (I generally don't think it's too odd for an OS to ship with a text editor of some kind. I don't use notepad much but there are a few times that it's been a life saver.)