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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The way Windows buil-in text editor colors and formats JSON files in 2023...

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I refuse to believe anyone ever opens microsoft notepad on purpose.

[–] uzay@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

Depending on the system you're on it can be all you have. It's like Microsoft's vi, just so much worse

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I use it as a temporary text storage since my browser search bar copy and paste stopped working

[–] vsh@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Best plain txt viewer

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I disagree that that’s much of a problem. Notepad’s just a low footprint plaintext editor, period. It’s good enough for what it does. If you want something more advanced (with more footprint and start time), just use . I never saw anyone hating on echo and cat…