It’s still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.

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    4 months ago

    Why?!

    It’s an opportunity to monitor the contents of the file, and your keystrokes.

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      4 months ago

      also killing wordpad and putting features from that to notepad means one less program to maintain, less expenses

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        How does the math work out on that? Both are fairly mature, I don’t believe that either application takes a considerable amount of development effort to maintain. And taking features from Wordpad and putting them into Notepad has a time and effort cost.