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The only use case I have ever used Wordpad for was to open text files with Linux End-of-Lines on a Windows computer with only Wordpad and Notepad (that do not s

The only use case I have ever used Wordpad for was to open text files with Linux End-of-Lines on a Windows computer with only Wordpad and Notepad (that do not see LF as proper and of lines and just displays one line of mess).

LMMojo 3y ago
Same here. Open a text file in Notepad and the contents extend way past the edge of the screen. Open it in WordPad and turn on line wrapping. Oh! Also, needing to open an RTF when Word wasn't installed.
- recursive 3y ago
  Why not turn on wrapping in notepad?
  - jan_k_ 3y ago
    Notepad wouldn't recognize Unix line endings and would interpret the whole file as one line. Word wrapping doesn't fix that.
    - recursive 3y ago
      Oh I see. Yes, I remember that. FYI, notepad can cover this use case now, as it can handle more character encodings and line-endings.
    - rzzzt 3y ago
      There was also some weirdness where you could not have the status bar and word wrapping enabled at the same time.
tjoff 3y ago
FYI, nowadays notepad does support different line endings. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-notepad/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-n...