I don’t like Apple but they ship their devices with everything a basic user needs and if a high quality, completely for free. When you get a MacBook you don’t need to worry about finding and downloading an external app for almost anything - from viewing any kind of file, to basic photo and video editing, to document processing, etc. And they don’t track every minute thing you do and act like malware to try to make you use their products.
“Active development”? What the fuck do they think needed to be done with txt? More ads? They do realize that there are a lot of txt looker aters right? This is not even a fight, its a “well anyway” sort of thing.
probably takes a bit of effort to keep windows built-in spell checker from working in it.
Spell checker works in literally every part of windows (more so where you don’t want it), this is the lamest weak sauce example on why you need to give me $20 ever.
i think he forgot “/s”
Wordpad is for looking at and editing rich text, not txt files. It’s not a big deal because no one uses rtf.
I like using it when I want to create a simple rtf document and not use a bloated Office.
as a replacement, markdown is your friend. you can learn the symbols or (harder option) find a markdown wyswyg editor program.
Or, and hear me out on this, you create an unholy mixture of MD/HTML/Latex documents in a plaintext editor and then you use the Pandoc CLI to make it into a PDF/DOCX/website/whatever.
Word is not included with Windows apprently so Wordpad is useful at work when I don’t have time to install LibreOffice.
Annoyingly enough, the other day got the first RTF file I’ve gotten in probably 20 years. To make matters worse, it was JSON that the customer decided should be sent as an RTF attachment to an email.
Of course I run Linux on my work computer so I didn’t have wordpad anyway. I had to use a cli utility to convert it to text, then use vscode to properly format it, since he conversion removed all the indentation/spacing.
If I never see another RTF file again, it’ll be too soon.
Wordpad is for whatever people use it for, and that is mostly looking at files in some sort of text (words on a pad). My point is if microsoft removes the ability to open a text file then the consequences are on them.
You’re thinking of Notepad I think
Yes, I would say notepad would be the bigger loss. But wordpad is still the default for people before they learn about things like notepad++
Notepad is the default text editor on Windows. I’d be surprised if most people even knew WordPad existed.
Interestingly enough I have seen a lot of new PCs that have Wordpad as default (mostly dells and some HPs).
I have seen that too and the first thing you do is change it to notepad as wordpad isn’t good for text files
Wordpad can also open most Word files. Even though I have Office, I open word files in wordpad all the time, because it’s so much faster to open. When I just need one small piece of info, that I am going to copy and paste, it saves me time.
I just use notepad++ when I have to use Windows PCs.
Wordpad is a rich text editor not a plain text editor.
I can’t say I’ve used Wordpad intentionally - ever -, but they do serve different functions.
If you ever have to open a .rtf file (you won’t) it’s one of the few programs that natively supports it.
of course, gotta push more people to that godawful office 365 crap somehow
As long as they leave Notepad. I use it almost daily.
WordPad was a fast and efficient way to view doc files without loading into LibreOffice or any other office suite, or to make rich text documents quickly. But alas, we have to go to the cloud for our notes now…
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oh no, anyway
Not a huge problem for me: (1) Never really used wordpad. (2) Used WordPerfect from 1999-2003 (3) Used Open Office and Libre Office since 2003 (4) I use Linux now
I use textpad for helping with coding and note keeping. No goddamn text formatting, just plain ascii with windows or unix line endings. Quick and easy macros, etc.
A good alternative is abiword. Don’t know if it exists on Windows tho.
Another advertisement for Linux…
I honestly didn’t even know it was still around. The last time I opened it was… Windows 7, I think?
I use VSCodium instead.
“Looks like you’ll have to pay for Word instead”
Or LibreOffice or Only office or…
I got a copy of WordPerfect around here somewhere.
