Kwrite and Kate are too modern and fiddly to replace notepad.exe. 99.9% of the time I just want to open a text file. That's it, just open it and show it on the

Kwrite and Kate are too modern and fiddly to replace notepad.exe. 99.9% of the time I just want to open a text file. That's it, just open it and show it on the screen. If you want a notepad that's just a damn notepad, get 'mousepad'. It doesn't do anything, it's the platonic ideal of a text editor.