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Ctrl + Shift + V pastes without formatting on Windows

Ctrl shift v

I maintain a small business website with notepad. HTML in the raw.

Not in the new one. It had one job and it does it badly now.

I actually unironically use notepad when I need to write something down because of how quickly it opens up

Wait...what....??? I thought it's only me who use notepad to remove text formatting

My brother in Christ, let me introduce you to ctrl+shift+v

Here’s the deal Notepad, we can’t trust MS Word to remove all the nonsense.

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.

Is this something I'm too markdown/LaTeX pilled to understand?

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.

If you also want to remove line breaks, paste it into a url bar

As a Mac user, in an LLM world, text editors are King.

I couldn't do my job anymore without them.

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-

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 fuckin love Notepad. No decorations, no flourish, just me and my raw thoughts

I just paste and then copy whatever i need into the address bar of any browser and its good to go. Unless its very long.

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.

This is literally my primary use of notepad.

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!

lol too good