Comment by toyg
3 months 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.
3 months 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.
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...
I 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.