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Comment by bondarchuk

11 hours ago

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.

    • It 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...