After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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Ah thanks for the first proper answer. Sounds good, I will give it a try.
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I think the idea is that you can use it for reformatting small sets of data I guess.
"make all the dates in this CSV iso-8601"
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I love Kate.
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I use Vim, actually
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Adding layers to paint was what surprised me
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A few of those features are available on Notepad as well, just FYI.
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Specifically: tabs, dark mode, and retention of unsaved documents. They're apps for very different purposes, but Notepad has had some nice little updates over recent years.
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[email protected] could use more folks!
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There always has to be one...
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So... who wants to bet that the new version of Notepad is not constantly scraping anything you type into it and feeding it into the AI, regardless of whether you're paying for this feature or not?
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Is that Windows 11-only thing, or have I been missing a bunch of notepad features?
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You obviously didn't read the article, but that's OK it's a trash article anyway. Which is already indicated by the headline, since Notepad was never free, it's just included with Windows.
But your comment is disconnected from what this is really about, which essentially boils down to nothing.
Since what you are supposed to pay for is new AI features. Otherwise you can use Notepad as usual. -
Out if curiosity, which ones? Because I don't see any of those features and am on W11...
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Notepad++ is my text editor of choice as someone who just edits the occasional file. I'm not a programmer or anything, but it's nice to have those autocomplete and syntax highlighting features for config files. Helps me keep track of stuff better when editing.
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+10000 for notepad++, its he swiss army knife of file editing tools.
Adding:
Plugins: CSV being read as a small dB table you can query is a game changer. Or have a JSON plugin that auto formats and queries as well as opens the JSON in a clickable nested window.
Pinned tabs: pin important tabs, I use one as a todo list.
Search for text within files in a folder: need to find a specific bit of text in one of dozens/hundreds/thousands/millions of files somewhere? Its lightning fast and works a treat
Search and replace with regex: amazing feature, use regex patterns to find complex parts of your files and replace them with something else
Bulk operations: remove newline, replace line breaks etc
Multi format support: see line breaks from different OSs like Unix and windows and amend them
Portable install: you dont have to install it, you can use a portable versionSo much more, get it and you won't look back.
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Sublime text ftw
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That's actually very nice, one of the few Microsoft programs that I genuinely miss - layers are a quality of life feature that is actually really nice to have
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I prefer Sublime
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personally i find kate struggles with large files. KWrite is a better analog to notepad IMO
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Notepad++ on windows is kind of the GOAT IMO.
