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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
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As long as you have notepad, you're good.
What if I want rich text?
LaTeX is always free and works on many systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language
https://www.markdownguide.org/
https://typst.app/
https://asciidoctor.org/
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/basics.html
https://orgmode.org/
Any good missing?
Well and then there are interactive or side-by-side editors for most of them.
Notepad3 https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/releases
Markdown?
You should probably reconsider.
Have your butler do it for you
Too bad, only the poorest text for you.
*economically challenged text
Notepad++
I would have suggested Sublime. But you still can't print with it properly (only with an extension which prints in background with another program). Sure normally you don't need to print code and with missing markup possibilities it's pointless anyway. But sometimes a raw easy list of ideas needs to be printed.
Now I selfhost a markdown editor just for that usecase.
Is this 2010?
Notepad++ is still good :p