Windows 11 ltsc comes with old Notepad. Looks like the same one from Windows 10.
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dbtng@eviltoast.org 13 hours ago
I miss oldskool Notepad being present on the system. Win11 Notepad is a worthless piece of shit.
But … any computer or vm that I use for more than a few hours gets a copy of Metapad.
I’ve been using Metapad for … umm … decades.
Metapad is a simple, extremely lightweight editor, intended to just barely be better than Notepad, fixes a lot of shit that MS never did and stays simple.
liquidninja.com/metapad/
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Professor_Piddles@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I’ve been a long time user of Notepad++ after Notepad started inserting random whitespace characters in files, which messed up some jankety scripting I was doing at the time. Do you happen to know if Metapad is good about not adding unintended characters like that?
davidagain@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I use EditPadLite and have done for a loong time. It has regex find and replace, is fast and you can tell it to display word wrapped or not, numbered lines or not, font, size, colours, syntax highlighting scheme, all based on file extensions. I have it as my default text editor and for all kinds of other files as well as text.
If I want to do major coding, I fire up the IDE and choose from my recent projects, but if I want to quickly edit some xml or a single source file, I double click it and edit it in EditPadLite.
dbtng@eviltoast.org 10 hours ago
Yes. Metapad is too dumb for that shit. By design.
It’s only barely smart enough to be better than Notepad.
It’s not smart enough to do anything dumb.
Its free, extremely mature, and you already know how to use it.
Metapad is a feature-for-feature drop-in replacement for Notepad.
chunes@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I love this. Amazing quote
Professor_Piddles@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Thanks! I’ll check it out 🍻