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Please, never in its history has anything from Microsoft been "clearly understandable".


Notepad is quite simple


It even has usable features, like inserting the current date and time (my cat showed me that one!)


First I've ever noticed this. I was little surprised it now has infinite tabs, did that come in with win11? I also noticed today that it has autocorrect, never noticed that before! I generally just use it as a clipboard for ascii text so it might be it's been like this forever.


> use it as a clipboard for ascii text

this was one of my favorite uses as well, especially when copying something from Word. copying to Notepad before copying to a terminal has saved me from so much grief of debugging why something is acting other than expected




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