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Notepad is my last weapon against Microsoft Office. If they ever take it away, I don't know what I would do. Do you find that on your Windows machine, you are constantly laundering your text-based clipboard data through notepad.exe in order to strip out the "smart" meta-data that Office applications send into the clipboard in order to confuse themselves with indentation, smart-quotes, over-wrought table formatting, etc? Or is it just me? |
Yeup, me too.
Posted by: Darcy at June 23, 2005 02:01 PMMy goodness, yes.. Me too.. It's not just Windows, or even office. TextEdit on OSX defaults to rich text, so when you want to paste something from the web, you can never be sure you'll even get something readable.
Posted by: Jake at June 24, 2005 01:35 PMOh my God, Rus, you have no idea. Usually I have two, three different Notepad sessions going on. Smart quotes are the rare feature that are both cool and suck at the same time. Good for law school; bad for code. (I'm doing both.) It's been a long ten years, hasn't it?
Posted by: Bill Cash at August 27, 2005 08:13 AM