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I liked notepad for it's simplicity.

Even notepad++ was way more complex than notepad ever was.

It literally just used ASCII (or similar) characters to a file. You can't open anything other than text on it, it won't allow you to attach pictures, graphs, videos or even links. You need to type out the damned URL in its entirety.

N++ is great for what it is, but notepad, aside from it's simplicity, was also great because it was everywhere.

Windows 11 started the down fall of my favorite simple text editor when they introduced..... tabs.

I hate that. I close notepad, and then open it again and.... Why is all this shit still here?!?!

Get fucked Microsoft.

A more notepad similar program instead of Libre stuff (for windows folk) https://www.editpadlite.com/en.html

If you can find the original editpad floating out on the net, it's notepad without the file size limit, ancient shareware. The pro version is pretty sweet too, one of very few pieces of software I've paid for out of pocket.

I never really thought about just how personal Notepad is for me. Even the Notes app on my phone. I wouldn't want anyone to look through any of it. I write some embarrassing shit. Pointless backstories for my video game protagonists when they don't already have one. Drafts for important upcoming conversations. You name it. Get the fuck out of my space. Fortunately I'm still using Notepad++, but I'm sure Microsoft will slide its dick into that too, eventually.

Notepad++ is a great option if you absolutely need to be on Windows. I started using it at work because all of my colleagues were on it, now I install it on any box I have running Windows while I set them up.

Feeling the same, and currently in process of dumbing down my tech and decoupling from major tech platforms. They really got us by the balls.

Long live open source!

Learn to use Vim. It can be anywhere and everywhere.

Notepad++ is what real humans use

Kate exists on windows and linux

I used notepad precisely because it lacks features beyond writing text, this is such an anti feature

This is a pretty random Notepad story, but: in 1999 I was doing web development for Internet Explorer 6 (yes, I know) using Classic ASP and Visual Basic (5 or 6? I can't be bothered to look shit like that up). Probably my most important debugging tool was the "View Source" menu option in IE6, which would bring up the raw HTML of whatever page I was working on in Notepad. One day the "View Source" option just stopped working, completely. Clicking that menu wouldn't do anything at all; I tried everything I could think of but just couldn't fix the problem. For six months I was basically coding blind - I had no way of directly seeing the HTML my code was producing.

Somehow I managed to still get my work done. Then one day I stumbled across an obscure forum post that said "View Source" in IE6 would not work if you had a shortcut to Notepad on your Desktop. I of course had a shortcut to Notepad on my Desktop since I kept everything on my desktop (yes, I know). I renamed my shortcut to "NotepadX" and suddenly "View Source" in IE6 started working again. Possibly the happiest day of my programming life. I played around with it and found that it didn't have to actually be a shortcut to Notepad - it could be a shortcut to any program or file, but if it happened to be named "Notepad" it would block View Source from working.

I would give anything to find out where this particular bug came from. It's really bothered the shit out of me for the past 26 years. I don't see how it could ever happen accidentally, so I have to assume that some MS programmer somewhere really hated people with shortcuts to commonly-used programs on their Desktop and decided to punish them.