Don't shame notepad! Just the other day I had to alter a host file so a computer could talk to a server! That's a very important thing and I wouldn't have been able to do it without trusty notepad!
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Does anyone else use the .LOG feature?
Put .LOG at the beginning of a text file. When opened in Notepad, you should get a date & time stamp.
Open filename.txt, type something, save and close.
Now you have a journal for system and config changes, document collections, time entries, client visits, whatever. Has worked on every Windows box I ever had to use.
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Wait...what....??? I thought it's only me who use notepad to remove text formatting
Yes but you woukd not need to if you just installed Ditto clipboard manager Just press shift-enter in ditto to paste in plain text anywhere
Learn to use this and it will change your life I SWEAR
https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
The shortcut is CTRL+~
Ha! Welcome to the club, normie! :-)
As a Mac user, in an LLM world, text editors are King.
I couldn't do my job anymore without them.
Join the club pal
I actually unironically use notepad when I need to write something down because of how quickly it opens up
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I fuckin love Notepad. No decorations, no flourish, just me and my raw thoughts
lol too good
Every text editor removes formatting, plain txt files don't have any format. but text editors, like Notepad are very usefull to edit eg, config files or scripts, where isn't desirable to change the original format. There are apps way more useless than Notepads-
I just the other day edited a Steam config file with some wacky file extension by cracking it open in notepad. Bless plain text.
Is this something I'm too markdown/LaTeX pilled to understand?
You copy some text from a webpage and put it in your email or word processor, it copies the formating too and everything looks wonky. If you paste the clipboard content in a text editor, like notepad and copy the text from there, you strip the formating.
That is what the post is refering to.
You copy some text from a webpage and put it in your markdown/LaTeX document in your text editor, like vim. Then you use pandoc/pdf-latex to export in whatever file format you need. It never looks wonky, it looks exactly like you tell it to.
I maintain a small business website with notepad. HTML in the raw.
You'd typically want Kate rather than KWrite, if you're gonna do development. Basically the same editor, but with more power-user features.
There are plenty of consenting adults who would be happy to punch you in the genitals, why not just do that instead?
Oh god, I remember the days of creating webpages by hand-editing HTML in notepad. And not fondly.
I enjoyed it :(
I mean I'm not here to shit on anybody else's good time, I just hated it myself.
"Ah, you think IDEs are your ally. But you merely adopted the lDE. I was born in Notepad, molded by it. I didn't see syntax highlighting until I was already a man. By then, it was nothing to me but blinding!"
Someone asked me what IDE I use for python and I’m so dumb I didn’t even know what they meant. I just said whatever the fedora gnome text editor app is… who needs IDEs!
Real OG's let their brains do the highlighting, like God intended
This is literally my primary use of notepad.
ctrl+shift+v removes all formatting when you paste. You're welcome.
Some apps (e.g. Microsoft Word) override ctrl+shift+v.
That's.. extraordinarily stupid. Sounds like you need better word processing software.