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As a Mac user, in an LLM world, text editors are King.
I couldn’t do my job anymore without them.
I was already done with windows, but if I hadn’t decided yet the AI in notepad definitely would have put me over the edge. That’s insane.
Yeah they just want to collect every single bit of data you have. AI is a data collection tool. A reason to send everything you type or use to their servers. I swapped to Linux fully over 4 years ago and my windows 10 install is still sitting on my older SSD drive. It’s a good reminder to format that thing and use it as a backup drive in my Unraid setup.
Here’s the deal Notepad, we can’t trust MS Word to remove all the nonsense.
look mate some of us just like fonts. don’t kinkshame
Ctrl + Shift + V pastes without formatting on Windows
Is there something like this for Mac users that have this stupid behavior ported over through the MS Office suite?
I’ve been on Windows since 3.0 and only recently learned that. Use it almost every day now.
Same, I’ve been using PCs with Microsoft operating systems since fuckin’ MS-DOS 3.2 and I only learned about it a couple years ago.
I don’t think it’s OS dependent.
Sadly, doesn’t work everywhere. Sometimes, this is still necessary.
Ctrl + Win + Alt + V works everywhere I’ve tried it.
Funny enough, I’ve found Microsoft apps are the most inconsistent with this functionality
Yeah this doesn’t work anywhere in Office apps
Never in my entire life have I wanted to paste with formatting into a word doc, and you always have to click the stupid little clipboard icon after you paste to undo it.
Ctrl + Alt + V
Yes and after learning of the shortcut, it actually makes me angrier when I get formatted text.
Can anyone confirm if that keeps Jira from doing that “uploading an image” thing when pasting text?
Linux too, at least in most applications I’ve tried. Some will ask you when you ctrl+shift+v if you want to paste formatted or unformatted text.
Ctrl + Shift + V should paste without formatting, but for some reason Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Publisher) refuses to follow this standard.
Not in the new one. It had one job and it does it badly now.
The new notepad is rage inducing
It’s that the one that wants me to use it’s AI editor?
Get off notepad nightlies.
This is literally my primary use of notepad.
ctrl+shift+v removes all formatting when you paste. You’re welcome.
Some apps (e.g. Microsoft Word) override ctrl+shift+v.
wl-paste | wl-copy
text formatting is so dumb who the f wants that feature
I maintain a small business website with notepad. HTML in the raw.
You’d typically want Kate rather than KWrite, if you’re gonna do development. Basically the same editor, but with more power-user features.
There are plenty of consenting adults who would be happy to punch you in the genitals, why not just do that instead?
"Ah, you think IDEs are your ally. But you merely adopted the lDE. was born in Notepad, molded by it. I didn’t see syntax highlighting until I was already a man-by then, it was nothing to me but blinding!
Someone asked me what IDE I use for python and I’m so dumb I didn’t even know what they meant. I just said whatever the fedora gnome text editor app is… who needs IDEs!
Real OG’s let their brains do the highlighting, like God intended
Oh god, I remember the days of creating webpages by hand-editing HTML in notepad. And not fondly.
I enjoyed it :(
I mean I’m not here to shit on anybody else’s good time, I just hated it myself.
Every text editor removes formatting, plain txt files don’t have any format. but text editors, like Notepad are very usefull to edit eg, config files or scripts, where isn’t desirable to change the original format. There are apps way more useless than Notepads-
I just the other day edited a Steam config file with some wacky file extension by cracking it open in notepad. Bless plain text.
Yeah, that was the only way that worked consistently. Buttons like “Paste Without Formatting” failed in more than a few cases.
Past tense, because it works on Linux. But I still have the old habit and use KWrite sometimes.
I’m trying to remember if I’ve ever run kwrite beyond the first time 20 years ago when I wanted to see what it was.
Shift + ctrl + v is paste without formatting
Outlook intercepts and disables it because of course it does and instead pastes it with the formatting but with a little drop down box at the end of your text pass address you can click to remove the formatting like you tried to do with you with hotkeys.
I have to use Outlook for work, but never intentionally do so if I choice. Truly amazing. If there’s anything that can be messed up, it will be.
Also, the “Paste Without Formatting” button is paste without formatting
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It’s not 100% accurate though. It’s app dependant, sometimes it work (most of the time) but in some app it won’t (office?)
I got Pure Text from Windows Store. Bind it to ctrl+shift+v and if now works everywhere, 100% of the time. That’s the only feature of the app.
lol too good
Nailed it, this is the only reason I’ve used notepad for years. Speaking of which, now that I’m permanently on Linux I should lfind a command line way to do this - there has to be one, if not many.
Just slap it in Geany.
You don’t need Linux or any command line tools to do this, there’s lots of apps that can strip formatting from the clipboard content, heck Windows Power Toys also comes with this feature built in, it’s just a simple keyboard shortcut
Does anyone else use the .LOG feature?
Put .LOG at the beginning of a text file. When opened in Notepad, you should get a date & time stamp.
Open filename.txt, type something, save and close.
Now you have a journal for system and config changes, document collections, time entries, client visits, whatever. Has worked on every Windows box I ever had to use.
Windows Power Toy run provides multiple date and time generation capability in built
Don’t shame notepad! Just the other day I had to alter a host file so a computer could talk to a server! That’s a very important thing and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without trusty notepad!
