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Windows Notepad

Fast, streamlined editor with extensive features, bundled with Windows since 1985. Supports plain text, UTF-8, and over 100 languages with enhanced functionality since 2018, including dark mode, Bing search, and large file handling.

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  • Free
  • Proprietary

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  • Windows  Built in.
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Top Positive Comment
der_Darm
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Hardcore app. But it's like windows trademark. It's useful for a lot of simple tasks whitch require quick editor.

soul1472
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wizard at mysterious tower

old notepad (Win10 and older) is cool, because... it just does its work, you know? like. writing text. new (Win11) notepad? a nightmare.

RemovedUser
2

Leave it to Microsoft to make a simple notepad bloated and unstable.

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inson1
0

Not open source

Use Notepad3

Marja Petersen
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I'm looking for an possiblility to add this program to my webbrowser Opera. does anybody here knows how to do this?

inson1
Replying to @Marja Petersen

What do you mean? I think your question isnt clear.

Marja Petersen
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I l ove this little program because I build up my websites with it.

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JimmyManuva
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I use this app every day and haven't got any complaints about it. So simple but so great.

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What is Windows Notepad?

Fastest and lightweight simple text editor bundled with all Windows OS. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. So it has been used by people for long time Since 1980s. Features improved especially since 2018.

Features:

  • Cut / Copy / Paste / Undo (Gradual Undo in Win11)
  • Search string
  • Replace string
  • Go to line (Win 2000 later)
  • Insert Time/Date (Also, files whose first line is .LOG will have a timestamp inserted at the end of the file when opened)
  • Word Wrap
  • Change font
  • Show Status bar (Win XP later)
  • Search with Bing (Win 10 later)
  • Zoom Text (Win 10 version 1809)
  • Dark mode (Win 11)
  • Multi-language, Support for more than 100 languages

File support: Support for Linux newline codes, and improved loading of huge files in 2018. Saved by UTF-8 From Windows 10 version 1903 in 2019.

Notepad's predecessor was Multi-Tool Notepad, a mouse-based text editor by Microsoft in 1983. Notepad was bundled with Windows (Vesion 1.0) in 1985.

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