Comment by Neil44
12 hours 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.
12 hours 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.
Notepad--
This made me spit out my coffee, thanks.
That was WordPad, right? Except it also loaded instantly, probably.
Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what, iirc it loaded in 0.1 seconds vs 0.01 for notepad.exe
IIRC 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.
> 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.
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