OMG, Notepad has FEATURES!

[gigapet]

UPDATE:

Work efficiency has increased 72% because of this tech tip! Thank You ATOT.

 

[vshah]

hehe fun stuff usually shows up in silly help files...

i use editplus for editing stuff though 🙂

 

[DnetMHZ]

Notepad Help File:

"Type Words"

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[igowerf]

Originally posted by: SSP

Originally posted by: fisher
hmmm. i replaced notepad with metapad ages ago.

Ok.. default browsers I can understand... word processors.... photo editing software.... i understand... but replacing note pad???

I use metapad too. It's pretty much the same as notepad, but it actually has a lot of features. It supports files larger than 64K, it lets you convert from DOS to Unix line carriages, multiple undo, always on top, transparency, show hyperlinks, and lots of other useful stuff. I think the author even wrote the program in C using Win32 API to make sure that it's fast and small.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: fisher
hmmm. i replaced notepad with metapad ages ago.

Same here, but I do have access to MS Notepad, too, just in case I want to use it. I have shortcuts to both in my Send To folder. I followed the author of Metapad's advice and renamed the orginal Notepad.exe, etc.

 

[TheVrolok]

What do you guys use a basic text editor for that made you decide to replace Notepad with something else?

 

[oog]

the main reason i started using a different editor is that i edit files that come from unix or linux boxes every now and then, and notepad doesn't handle the unix end-of-line sequence properly by default.