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		RajT88 on Nov 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing ... My favorite use of notepad is cleaning my clipboard of formatted data. Yes, you can use Ctrl+alt+v but not all applications support it, and not all applications that do consistently respect it. The windows clipboard is a functional mess and getting worse.

llm_nerd on Nov 7, 2024 [–]

100%. Notepad has always been just a simple ASCII text tool, with Wordpad being the discount word processor. Microsoft's insistence in shoving word processing features into Notepad has never made sense.

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