Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession

Fixbeat@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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  • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ctrl+Shift+V pastes without formatting.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t fix artificial line break issues though. Simple text editors are perfect for stopping some text from looking unnecessarily like poetry.

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    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am 46 how am I just learning this now?!

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      incredibly pro tip, I use this all the time

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use it for writing quick temporary notes for work when I don’t have a pen and paper handy.

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• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i use it constantly because it’s the only text editor that comes out of the box with windows 10

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Easily replaced.

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    • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, its not easily replaced in a locked-down enterprise setting. That’s naive.

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      • zecg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s portable Notepad++, it’s great

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      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Portable App, “open with”, “always use this app”.

        You think i was never in a corporate setting?

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• GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It has such a distinct lack of any features whatsoever, that it makes it a perfect tool for practicing written assignments for language exams.

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• JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 indenting or whatever the hell. That said, I’ll still use a “fancy” text editor like Notepad++ or Sublime Text.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use it as a cache for chunks of text I want to move around

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