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Win9x Notepad in particular can only load files up to 64KB in size (edit: and supports only ANSI encoding, no Unicode). There were some actually useful addition

Win9x Notepad in particular can only load files up to 64KB in size (edit: and supports only ANSI encoding, no Unicode). There were some actually useful additions to it up until Windows 10 or so - for example being able to handle LF (in addition to CRLF) line endings. But yeah, everything added in Windows 11 is just pure bloat.

pjmlp 8mo ago
The reason being it is a plain text edit component, with a window around it, hence the limitation.
- zabzonk 8mo ago
  Yep. Back when I used to teach Windows programming in C commercially, the course exercise was to replicate notepad. It was surprising how many of its features you could implement in a week-long course, especially as many of our clients were no great shakes at C.
  - NetMageSCW 8mo ago
    I think it is more surprising how many deeper features were hidden in Notepad (I did a complete re-implementation using MFC for Windows CE). Did you implement .LOG and Unicode support with BOM handling?
    - zabzonk 8mo ago
      This was on Windows 3.1. I don't think the version of notepad there had any Unicode support - certainly the one in our training course didn't; I didn't feel up to teaching C, the Windows API _and_ Unicode. It was just a slightly realistic exercise where our clients could implement as much or as little as they felt happy with, making use of standard windows controls as much as possible.
SomeUserName432 8mo ago
I find notepad useful for sanitising clipboard content. No bold text, italics, bullet points, invisible html.. Just get the text and can copy it to paste again somewhere else. Ala Cmd+Shift+V on Mac
- xnorswap 8mo ago
  You can Ctrl+shift+v to paste plain text in windows.
  - sheiyei 8mo ago
    In some cases. In others, the application does whatever it wants.
    - UqWBcuFx6NV4r 8mo ago
      And funnily enough, Office for Mac doesn’t allow you to do this, or at least it didn’t used to. I think I may’ve just noticed that it’s started working.
      - mfro 8mo ago
        Doesn’t work for me. The absolute most infuriating thing is that copying text out of OneNote pastes as AN IMAGE. The only way around this is sanitizing the text in a notepad on the host machine itself.
    - 8cvor6j844qw_d6 8mo ago
      > application does whatever it wants Obsidian has a mildly infuriating default of opening previews with ctrl shift v keys instead of pasting with no formatting.
- setopt 8mo ago
  I somewhat regularly use the almost embarrassing key sequence Ctrl-C Ctrl-L Ctrl-V Ctrl-A Ctrl-X to sanitize text I’ve copied from a browser, using the address field to remove any formatting.
literalAardvark 8mo ago
Notepad is so slow at loading large files that it crashing quickly is a feature. The windows 7-10 versions that could open anything would just get stuck for half an hour when you opened the wrong thing in them, which was rather annoying.

pjmlp 8mo ago

The reason being it is a plain text edit component, with a window around it, hence the limitation.

zabzonk 8mo ago
Yep. Back when I used to teach Windows programming in C commercially, the course exercise was to replicate notepad. It was surprising how many of its features you could implement in a week-long course, especially as many of our clients were no great shakes at C.
- NetMageSCW 8mo ago
  I think it is more surprising how many deeper features were hidden in Notepad (I did a complete re-implementation using MFC for Windows CE). Did you implement .LOG and Unicode support with BOM handling?
  - zabzonk 8mo ago
    This was on Windows 3.1. I don't think the version of notepad there had any Unicode support - certainly the one in our training course didn't; I didn't feel up to teaching C, the Windows API _and_ Unicode. It was just a slightly realistic exercise where our clients could implement as much or as little as they felt happy with, making use of standard windows controls as much as possible.

SomeUserName432 8mo ago

I find notepad useful for sanitising clipboard content. No bold text, italics, bullet points, invisible html.. Just get the text and can copy it to paste again somewhere else. Ala Cmd+Shift+V on Mac

xnorswap 8mo ago
You can Ctrl+shift+v to paste plain text in windows.
- sheiyei 8mo ago
  In some cases. In others, the application does whatever it wants.
  - UqWBcuFx6NV4r 8mo ago
    And funnily enough, Office for Mac doesn’t allow you to do this, or at least it didn’t used to. I think I may’ve just noticed that it’s started working.
    - mfro 8mo ago
      Doesn’t work for me. The absolute most infuriating thing is that copying text out of OneNote pastes as AN IMAGE. The only way around this is sanitizing the text in a notepad on the host machine itself.
  - 8cvor6j844qw_d6 8mo ago
    > application does whatever it wants Obsidian has a mildly infuriating default of opening previews with ctrl shift v keys instead of pasting with no formatting.
setopt 8mo ago
I somewhat regularly use the almost embarrassing key sequence Ctrl-C Ctrl-L Ctrl-V Ctrl-A Ctrl-X to sanitize text I’ve copied from a browser, using the address field to remove any formatting.

literalAardvark 8mo ago

Notepad is so slow at loading large files that it crashing quickly is a feature. The windows 7-10 versions that could open anything would just get stuck for half an hour when you opened the wrong thing in them, which was rather annoying.