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The only reason I use Notepad is that it opens instantly. A fancy think with loads of features that's slow to open should be a new product.
by Neil44 11mo ago
The only reason I use Notepad is that it opens instantly. A fancy think with loads of features that's slow to open should be a new product.
- prirai 11mo agoNotepad--
- hotsauceror 11mo agoThis made me spit out my coffee, thanks.
- bondarchuk 11mo agoThat was WordPad, right? Except it also loaded instantly, probably.
- Neil44 11mo agoWordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what, iirc it loaded in 0.1 seconds vs 0.01 for notepad.exe
- toyg 11mo ago> Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what It was a proper WYSIWYG editor working with rich text, effectively a poor man's Word. Microsoft should have turned it into a markdown editor, instead of killing it.
- Neil44 11mo agoIt was, and worked well with rtf. I vaguely recall it being better than notepad if you were for example looking at strings in binary files, something like that, I forget...
- vrighter 11mo agoI often used it to convert unix style line endings to windows. Notepad choked on those, wordpad could load them easily, and just resaving them as a txt file converted them to windows line endings.
- inejge 11mo agoIIRC Wordpad was the only always-installed program which could open text files with Unix line endings and display them properly. Until at least Vista, Notepad would treat them as if containing a single line.