Notepad.exe

Super + R.

Ctrl + Shift + V pastes without formatting on Windows
- Sadly, doesn't work everywhere. Sometimes, this is still necessary.
  
  Funny enough, I've found Microsoft apps are the most inconsistent with this functionality
  
  Yes and after learning of the shortcut, it actually makes me angrier when I get formatted text.
  
  Ctrl + Win + Alt + V works everywhere I've tried it.
- 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.
- 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.
- Can anyone confirm if that keeps Jira from doing that "uploading an image" thing when pasting text?
- Is there something like this for Mac users that have this stupid behavior ported over through the MS Office suite?
  
  CMD + Shift + V

Ctrl shift v
- 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.

I maintain a small business website with notepad. HTML in the raw.
- "Ah, you think IDEs are your ally. But you merely adopted the lDE. I 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!
- Oh god, I remember the days of creating webpages by hand-editing HTML in notepad. And not fondly.
  
  I enjoyed it :(
- There are plenty of consenting adults who would be happy to punch you in the genitals, why not just do that instead?
- Why not use something like Notepad++ or KWrite?
  
  You'd typically want Kate rather than KWrite, if you're gonna do development. Basically the same editor, but with more power-user features.

Not in the new one. It had one job and it does it badly now.
- The new notepad is rage inducing
- Get off notepad nightlies.
- It's that the one that wants me to use it's AI editor?

I actually unironically use notepad when I need to write something down because of how quickly it opens up
- I also appreciate that Notepad notes now don't need to be manually saved to a file. They're probably in temp storage somewhere, but the point is you can just write and close.
  
  To be honest I don't think notepad is sophisticated enough to do it, but don't quote me on that
- I keep a notepad document of my desktop for making temporary notes on.
- Just wait until the AI assistant gets added 🤢

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

Wait...what....??? I thought it's only me who use notepad to remove text formatting
- Yes but you woukd not need to if you just installed Ditto clipboard manager Just press shift-enter in ditto to paste in plain text anywhere
  Learn to use this and it will change your life I SWEAR
  https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
  The shortcut is CTRL+~
  
  Great suggestion but incompatible with windows available in corpo.
- Ha! Welcome to the club, normie! :-)

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
  
  Viva la Comic Sans!!!

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

Is this something I'm too markdown/LaTeX pilled to understand?
- You copy some text from a webpage and put it in your email or word processor, it copies the formating too and everything looks wonky. If you paste the clipboard content in a text editor, like notepad and copy the text from there, you strip the formating.
  That is what the post is refering to.
  
  You copy some text from a webpage and put it in your markdown/LaTeX document in your text editor, like vim. Then you use pandoc/pdf-latex to export in whatever file format you need. It never looks wonky, it looks exactly like you tell it to.

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

If you also want to remove line breaks, paste it into a url bar
- I recently had to remove line breaks from the public key in a key pair, why did I never think of doing this

As a Mac user, in an LLM world, text editors are King.
I couldn't do my job anymore without them.

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.
- 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
- 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.

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.

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.

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.
- There is a good chance that whatever you are pasting is being sent to Google.
  
  Im using safari and more recently opera, but since that is chinese now, im guessing this isnt much better :D
  
  Huge chance. No question.
  
  I use Firefox with DuckDuckGo. But I do agree that Google is so pervasive in the browser space that pasting text to the URL bar without further context can be reasonably understood in most instances, as sending data to Google.

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

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.

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

What is a good linux program that serves this same purpose? Specifically removing formatting from copied text.
- Vi
- Notepad in wine ^(/s)
  gnote usually works
- Sublime. It's more like notepad++ but will serve the purpose.

So windows 11 sucks for a number of reasons, but one thing it doesn't suck for is updating the notepad program to have autosave and being able to reopen last notes even if not saved to a file directly. Makes it actually usefull as a notepad
- It does AI autocorrect to text though, which I'm not sure how I feel. It hasn't ruined anything for me just yet, but they're starting to try and make it automagical, which is exactly what I needed not to be.
  
  Oh gross. I haven't noticed that yet but will watch out for it

I mainly use the Blue Velvet editor (works also in mobile). There you can save locally in plain text (without any format), PDF or in htm. (Rich text or code). Works right in the browser.

This is a good one. 😂

Join the club pal

it is windows btw