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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 92 points 21 hours ago (22 children)

Fine. Notepad++ is better anyway

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world -5 points 20 hours ago (18 children)

Is it though? I still always open notepad for random text stuff. What is better in ++?

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 34 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (10 children)
  • Keeps your progress if you exit without saving
  • Supports tabs so you don't have 5 separate notepad windows open
  • syntax highlighting for programming languages and markdown format
  • plugin support
  • can handle extremely large text files (I've opened 50gb text files and used ctrl+f to find terms and it worked fine)
  • superb tools for manipulating text (e.g., use reg expressions). Super easy and flexible in making mass edits.
  • dark mode support. That alone makes it superior lol

If you just need a quick window open to make a note you might actually prefer Sticky Notes over Notepad!

[–] mr_jaaay@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Just to point out that on Win11, Notepad also:

  • Keeps progress without saving
  • Supports tabs

I use a bunch of text editors / note taking apps regularly (or semi-regularly) and Notepad is one of them (among others also Notepad++, VSC, Obsidian, Geany, Notion…).

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