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Seriously, just stop (or use Linux) (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Picture of text written in Notepad: STOP UPDATING NOTEPAD. TEXT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN UNORDERED LISTS. YEARS OF DEFAULT APP yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND FOR BASIC FORMATTING OPTIONS. Wanted to format anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "WORDPAD". "Yes please give me LINKS in my file. Please give me HEADERS." - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged. LOOK at what Microsoft has been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the programming language & technology we built for them (This is REAL Notepad, made by REAL Microsoft): ??????? ?????? ???????? "Hello I would like TABLES in a future update" They have played us for absolute fools
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[–] 101 points 7 months ago (14 children)

Notepad's sole purpose is to remove formatting from copied text.

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  • [–] 54 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    ctrl+shift+v is your friend

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Doesn't work everywhere...

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    But but but that’s unacceptable!

    Custom hotkey to trigger simple plaintext clipboard script, couldn’t live without it.

    (“Script“ is a scary word for many of us but you probably only ever see the code once or instead use some free open source clipboard manager that has “replace clipboard with plain text“ built-in.)

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    Anyway you’re right, I probably still use a similar workaround once a week!

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Not always (looking angrily at you Outlook, meanwhile your brother Excel excels (ha!) at doing this while inputting data).

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Fuck excel. The default should be to leave whatever the fuck I paste in there alone. If I want you to reformat shit I'll tell you to reformat it.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    ??
    Everytime I paste something it there, the formatting (for better or for worse) stays on whatever the source was.

    But at least you can use the CTRL + Shift + V to paste it unformatted (Unlike Outlook)

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Is it annoying enough you’d actually want to try fixing it or is the Notepad workaround good enough?

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