Comment on Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count

Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know a few people who use it to covert selections to plain text or keep a quick note. Notepad++ is more akin to an IDE if anything.

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ctrl + Shift + V will paste a selection in plain text.

    Also I keep quick notes in Notepad++ because it’s just as easy to open and it has persistent windows in case something happens.

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ctrl + Shift + V will paste a selection in plain text.

      *Sometimes

      Because MS in their infinite Wisdom only baked that functionality into some of their apps, and even in some apps where that functionality exists, sometimes it’s a different keybind.

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      • uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If set up PowerToys, you can enable that behaviour universally.

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    • shrodes@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Notepad also has persistent tabs now and you can close without saving

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• emptyother@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Only when Im on a remote computer that doesn’t support winget. I’m too lazy to download the installer.

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