Notepad is good because it is simple and starts quickly. It's perfect at what it's intended for, viewing logs and buffering stuff from the clipboard. If I wante

Notepad is good because it is simple and starts quickly. It's perfect at what it's intended for, viewing logs and buffering stuff from the clipboard. If I wanted to code I would use an actual code editor rather than Notepad. Tabs just mean more clicks between me and the file I want to view.