Just use shift+Ctrl+V for that.
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CTRL + SHIFT + V
For apps that support it. Not even the whole Microsoft suite does.
Heeey Notepad has Copilot included now! I wonder why they ruin the app.
Nah, I use it a lot for editing .ini files for games.
Try Notepad++, its free, open source, and well worth the minimal effort to download and install.
NP++ is great but sometimes you want something even more minimal... I for example hate NP++'s icon toolbar and it's cluttered menu bar and would never use it even though I acknowledge that it's a great tool (just not for me).
Classic notepad.exe with basic syntax highlighting would be amazing...
No, they are the sticky notes of the file system. And unless I need a docx file, I'm not gonna wait for Microsoft Copolit 365 24/7 Cortana Ambiguously Named Office Word to wake from its eternal slumber.
Notepad++. You don't even have to "save" the file! When I used Windows that is pretty much a requirement and it makes an excellent scratch pad.
To add to the others, I recommend Sublime Text
Heynote is my new goto for this usecase: https://heynote.com/
I will check that out! I have been using Obsidian for a while, with some plugins and minor tweaks to make the interface as plain text as possible, but it isn't always a good "scratch pad". I love markdown, but I do miss Notepad++ while on my Mac.
I'm also a heavy Obsidian user, but yes it's a full featured markdown editor.
Heynote does exactly what you like from notepad++ (persistent buffer, no saving) but instead of tabs you can press ctrl+enter and just start a new note (with line numbers starting over at 1) right below the previous one.
On top of that, hit ctrl+L and you can pick your language and get some nice formatting.
All just as lightweight as notepad/++
They added ai to the new notepad (win11) iirc
Before even typing "notepad" after hitting Win+R, I realised I could just paste my text directly into the run dialog and re-copy it.
For one liners, this is the way.
notepad++ is better.
I love it too, but it takes longer to open, and wants to update its self every time I open it. If I just want a plain text editor I still use plain notepad. I save ++ for when I need some special features.
notepad++ doesn't nag me about updates all the time. I open mine very frequently to manage my onetab tabs
SO much better.
CTRL + SHIFT + V in Windows pastes without formatting
It works 50% of the time
It depends on how the app you were using was written. If it was written correctly, it'll work, if not, blame the company that made it (especially when it's Microsoft themselves!).
Power Toys has a feature that will force it to work in every app, I highly recommend it! There's all sorts of helpful features in Power Toys.
+1 for PowerToys, lots of good features
I can't believe i never tried that. So much time wasted right-clicking and hitting values only.
I have no mouth and I must scream.
I can believe it: Stuff like this is not very well advertised to users so tons of useful shortcuts go unused regularly.
Bonus hotkeys:
WIN + X will also bring up a more helpful menu and allow you to do things like shut down, restart, sleep the computer using only a few keystrokes instead of clicking around.
WIN + right or left arrow will snap the screen to one side or the other, WIN + up maximizes, WIN + down will minimize
my company was paying a license for a tool to let them snag areas of the screen for screenshots, with quick tools to hilight or circle or add arrows to certain areas. an expensive license. more people than I care to admit we're shocked when I showed them the windows snipping tool with win + shift + x
There's also Greenshot if people dislike the built in stuff, it's free, open source, and works pretty well.
Thanks for the rec! I'll definitely suggest that but the head of our IT dept has a particular dislike for FOSS, due to past bad experiences, but I've been slowly whittling him down.
I am the IT department, but have had mostly good experiences with FOSS stuff, although you do need to vet the licensing: Not all licenses will allow for a company or institution to use it.
Also, you need to make sure it will work reliably, doesn't pose any security risks, etc. but that should always be SOP for any software FOSS or proprietary, free or paid. If a tech department isn't vetting stuff, then they've already fucked up before deploying anything.
FOSS isn't necessarily bad in an enterprise environment though, sometimes it's even the best possible option (most web servers run some version of Linux, for example).
I do this all the time in Fedora.
Depends on the app, it’s not a “windows” thing.
If you install Power Toys, you can set a key sequence to paste in anything like this.
Power Toys FTW!
Watch microsoft "update" notepad to ruin this feature..
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