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I paste blocks of text or data into it, then copy it out again so I dont infect document B with document A's weird formatting
Ctrl+Shift+V pastes without formatting.
It doesn't fix artificial line break issues though. Simple text editors are perfect for stopping some text from looking unnecessarily like poetry.
I am 46 how am I just learning this now?!
incredibly pro tip, I use this all the time
I use it for writing quick temporary notes for work when I don't have a pen and paper handy.
I used to use it for taking quick notes when I had a slow computer. I didn't want to wait for Word to load, so I'd just use Notepad. Now I use Post Its or just don't write stuff down as much.
i use it constantly because it's the only text editor that comes with windows 10
Easily replaced.
No, its not easily replaced in a locked-down enterprise setting. That's naive.
There's portable Notepad++, it's great
Just because it's portable doesn't necessarily mean that it's allowed on the organizations allow list, but it does seem highly unlikely that the organization doesn't have any alternative text editors allowed.
But maybe they don't edit text files often enough to bother. And honestly, notepad was recently updated with tabs which makes it a lot more usable that it used to be.
Portable App, "open with", "always use this app".
edit: right, locked down, executable whitelist?
That's not at all practical in a large corporate IT setting.
On a large scale, you're the guy having the rights setting things up. Obviously the Portable Apps hack is for personal use.
I suppose one might believe things were that simple if they lacked actual experience in enterprise IT.
Or perhaps you're just not arguing in good-faith because you only care about being "right" and not about actually understanding the use case.
Funny enough, I use it like a notepad. Oh s***, I need to write this down real quick. I need to grab an exerpt off a website, our store serial number or make a quick list. It's literally scrap paper in digital form for me.
I only use it to strip HTML text down to plain text. As long as it can do that, I'll probably keep using it unless something better comes around.
It has such a distinct lack of any features whatsoever, that it makes it a perfect tool for practicing written assignments for language exams.
I use it all the time for quick notes at work, with its very simple interface, and the tabs feature was a game changer. Especially useful for phone calls in my case, although my typing speed far exceeds my writing speed so maybe I'm the exception because of that.
I don't use it to program though, usually that's delegated to Visual Studio.
I use it as a cache for chunks of text I want to move around. I use Textpad a lot for code and config files where I don't need all the lookup and predictive stuff.
I prefer having a bare-bones text editor over anything with formatting. Most of the time, I don't want the formatting to carry over, I want it stripped down to just the content, just the text. Word can get annoying sometimes when you're trying to copy and paste and it does something stupid like carrying over weird frames or tables or whatever the hell. That said, I'll still use a "fancy" text editor like Notepad++ or Sublime Text.