![]() Since Notepad++ is so much better than Notepad, it is a no brainer to replace the built-in Notepad in Windows with Notepad++. Notepad++ has helped us solved many of our text manipulation needs such as generating sequential number, removing duplicate lines, delete lines that doesn’t contain specific words, monitoring log or text file changes in real time, and many more! There are quite a number of free third party text editor which is better than Notepad and our favorite one is definitely Notepad++ which we’ve been using it for several years already. Other than that, Notepad also doesn’t support tabs, regular expressions, bookmarks and many more functions that can make a text editor really powerful and useful. One of the biggest problem with Notepad is it does not recognize line breaks from text files created in UNIX or Mac OS operating systems which is the reason why sometimes you see a few very long sentence on a readme file. I find Notepad useful when I need to quickly take short notes and also to remove any rich text format especially when the text are copied from websites. It can open file extensions such as TXT, INI, LOG, BAT and etc as long as it is a text format. These issues were later corrected with the Windows 7 and Windows Vista versions of the Notepad program.The Notepad that comes in Windows is a very basic editing tool to view and edit text files. The Notepad program that was released with the Windows XP and Windows 2000 has the ability Unicode files, even ones that are missing bytes, but it does so incorrectly and is not stable or reliable. In older versions of Notepad there is a 64k limit on edited files. ![]() The simplicity of Notepad means that it can be used to edit files that can be used in DOS. The first incarnation of the Notepad program was in the software that was bundled in with the Microsoft Mouse (a driver used to detect mice), two years before the Windows release of Notepad as we know it today.Īll files created by the notepad program are saved with the TXT file extension. There are no tags, no complex formatting and no colors, features or choice of fonts. ![]() Microsoft Notepad is a simple text editing program that is bundled with the Windows Operating System and has been since the first version of Windows in 1985. ![]()
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