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I prefer txt files for config and notes. I don’t care about formatting so word or word pad are too much.

I also use notepad as my goto “paste without formatting” as it’s typically faster to wash the clipboard through notepad than use whatever “paste special” ui an app has.

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I prefer something like notepad++ for config and notes. Syntax highlighting is useful for config files (especially larger ones). The auto storing of unsaved files is great for notes. Many of my notes are temporary but I still want them to survive a reboot when necessary. Plus I find tabs easier to manage when I have a lot of notes and files open. The Windows task switcher becomes awkward in that case.

I prefer notepad++ over notepad, but notepad is always installed. If I’m on a computer for a long time, I’ll install notepad++. But most of the time I’m in transient computers that have notepad but not notepad++.

It’s a similar preference to how I like vim. Vim is ubiquitous on *nix systems. Lots of better stuff, but I’m ok enough with vim.

Ah "washing the clipboard", I guess that's the term for it.

I turn on the address toolbar on the taskbar (underneath all the icons); it's great to navigate to files/directories by typing (especially with auto-complete, which wasn't there on Windows 9x!), and I also use it for "clipboard washing".

I call it "sanitizing clipboard", and I usually use either Win+R or browser address bar (Ctrl+L), whichever is quicker, for 95% cases, in which I have only one line of text to sanitize. In the remaining 5% cases, I go through Notepad. On Linux I don't have a Win+R equivalent, so I always use a browser or Emacs session, whichever quicker to switch to.

I used to use the browser address bar for this, too. Then browsers started sending the crap you paste in it to who knows where. I even used to paste passwords there to make sure they don't have leading or trailing characters unintentionally included. I'm sure at least some people do that to this day and Google and others have their logs full of passwords this way.

I did that thing with passwords too! Perhaps even when browsers were sending what you type in the address bar to some servers somewhere, but back before I knew about it.

Notepad2 is good notepad replacement. A few options checked and it even looks the same. It feels somewhere between notepad and notepad++.

I'm not talking about txt format specifically... I'm talking about using Windows Notepad specifically... There are much better tools like Sublime Text or Notepad++

Isn't it in most uis shift key +paste?

I use run for that as well, quicker to Windows+R, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+V

Notepad only supports CRLF, wordpad can read Unix-style files, which is a lot of files even on Windows. A great deal of software was written to unconditionally insert \n.

Formatting isn't the only reason to use it. I never bother to try notepad.

Notepad supports \n for a few months or years now.

Notepad was fixed years ago

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