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Tangurena 789 points790 points 4 months ago[-]

Helpful hint for notepad:

At the first line of the file, put

.LOG   

This will then put a timestamp at the end of the file every time you open it.

DoppelFrog 497 points498 points 4 months ago[-]

And if you press the F5 key it inserts a time-stamp. I use notepad as my phone log of choice.

guydotbrush 151 points152 points 4 months ago[-]

Holy crap. I've been using notepad for everything, forever. I did not know F5 did this. Thank you.

Solfire 22 points23 points 4 months ago[-]

Seriously wtf! What else am I oblivious to? Are there cheats to Pinball 3D too!? Oh wait...

ubershmekel 31 points32 points 4 months ago[-]

In windows XP:

  1. open notepad
  2. enter the following text, but without the quotes: "this app can break"
  3. save the file
  4. close notepad
  5. open the file (with notepad)

prepare to be amazed.

[deleted] 21 points22 points 4 months ago[-]

"Bush hid the facts"

marquizzo 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

What do you get? I have Vista, so Im feeling a bit left out.

yseneg 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

桴獩愠灰挠湡戠敲歡 WTF

Helmet_Icicle 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

Vista user here. What happens?

ubershmekel 11 points12 points 4 months ago[-]

桴獩愠灰挠湡戠敲歡

Helmet_Icicle 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

:0

myrandomname 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

It's impossible to name a folder con.

Riddari 9 points10 points 4 months ago[-]

Wow. That's amazing.

KeNnY_TF2 83 points84 points 4 months ago[-]

I found this out once when I tried to refresh Notepad.

solak 56 points57 points 4 months ago[-]

Weed is a helluva drug.

wcbzero 9 points10 points 4 months ago[-]

I still try to refresh notepad... Wish it would when I edit the file in annother application.

BraveSirRobin 7 points8 points 4 months ago[-]

notepad++ does that.

samlee 157 points158 points 4 months ago[-]

in emacs, you just download some plugin and install it and edit your rc file and add keyboard shortcut and finally open emacs and wait few seconds and when it's ready, just press the shortcut, C-c C-x M-a M-x C-t

VoidByte 76 points77 points 4 months ago[-]

In vim if you are on a blank line try ":.!date"

nicky7 19 points20 points 4 months ago[-]

Nice. Works for any command, including sudo, pipes, multiple lined output, even for loops. A very useful gem.

burke 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

Or in emacs for real, "C-u M-! date"

syuk 10 points11 points 4 months ago[-]

in DOS try echo time > wtf.txt

syuk 14 points15 points 4 months ago[-]

^^ does not work

Churn 18 points19 points 4 months ago[-]

he meant to do this:

echo %time% > wtf.txt

However, if you already had a file called wtf.txt this will overwrite it. If you wanted to append the time to the existing file then it would be:

echo %time% >> wtf.txt

syuk 17 points18 points 4 months ago[-]

it was me that had forgotten the '%'

Churn 27 points28 points 4 months ago[-]

oh! I didn't realize you were talking to yourself. Sorry for interrupting. ;)

moomooland 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

i never knew append was a double ">"

thank you

lambdaq 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

which is far slower than pressing a single F5 button.

ultimategoal 20 points21 points 4 months ago[-]

:map <F5> :.!date<CR>

You can't win, just walk away.

martyFREEDOM 26 points27 points 4 months ago[-]

I love you.

wiggitywhack 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

Omg the power!!!!!!

Kicken 38 points39 points 4 months ago[-]

Yup.

I discovered this some time during High School. I now use it to keep track of when I work.

Open file -> Enter Enter -> F5 -> Ctrl+S

Open file -> Enter -> F5 -> Ctrl+S

I get something like:

6:56 PM 3/19/2010
9:13 PM 3/19/2010

8:23 PM 3/20/2010
12:39 PM 3/20/2010

Tude 74 points75 points 4 months ago[-]

I learned it by trying to compile my todo list.

saqneo 24 points25 points 4 months ago[-]

The second seems to be an abnormally long shift.

Kicken 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

I work from home.

IH8DwnvoteComplainrs 13 points14 points 4 months ago[-]

Seems you worked for about 4 hours short of a year without stopping.

contrarian 9 points10 points 4 months ago[-]

The other day I was thinking it would be funny to take a picture of the book "Windows 7 Resource Kit," which is a 3-inch-thick 1600-pages book, and photoshopping on the title "Notepad Resource Kit".

I now see that such a book is needed.

strikan 16 points17 points 4 months ago[-]

Oh my god, I've been writing these dates in manually for literally YEARS. I can't believe I didn't know about this. Thanks for the crazy helpful information :-O

mattxb 3 points4 points 4 months ago[-]

Personally I like metapad a lot more than notepad. It has more undos and lots of shortcuts and customizations. The one undo on notepad made me seek out something different.

vurplesun 62 points63 points 4 months ago[-]

Holy...

Well, I learned something new and incredibly useful today. Thank you!

minusthebux 45 points46 points 4 months ago[-]

You know, when I saw this link, the first thing that came to my mind was that when I read the comments, there will probably be a few people chiming in with hints and tricks for notepad that I will find useful. Thank you for not disappointing.

illojal 39 points40 points 4 months ago[-]

This is why I love reddit. More tips please.

silvertoaster 17 points18 points 4 months ago[-]

Here's another tip. If you use a multi-touchpad (e.g. Synaptics) on your laptop, get Scrybe. You can configure a 3-finger hold to launch any file. Mine is set to launch Notepad. So all I ever have to do, wherever my cursor is on the screen, is put 3 fingers on my touchpad and Notepad opens!

jerrygofixit 19 points20 points 4 months ago[-]

If you're under XP:

WinKey + R > type %userprofile%

In there put a shortcut to notepad, name it 'n' or something easy.

Now, just Win + R > 'n' > Enter

This works for any shortcut with any name. It may work under Win7/Vista but I haven't tried it.

stomicron 15 points16 points 4 months ago[-]

It may work under Win7/Vista but I haven't tried it.

No need. You can search the start menu for programs with those two.

Win > 'notepad' > Enter

Depending on what else you have in your Start Menu you can get this down to Win > 'no' > Enter

Also, under Win7 if you pin notepad to the taskbar you can launch it with Win + x where x is a number corresponding to its position on the taskbar.

yourname146 10 points11 points 4 months ago[-]

"Win + x" in Win7 = MIND BLOWN. Yes, my laptop is too old to run Win7. Yes, I do it anyway, and touchpad often screwed up. lol

cocasyn 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

You can actually right click the shortcut, go to Properties, and go to Shortcut Key, and press something like CTRL+ALT+N or something, and it will open Notepad when you press that. Also pressing WIN+R then typing notepad and hitting enter works.

Boye 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

else, you rightclick my computer>advanced system setting> environment vairables> highlight path click edit> add "c:\shorts" (or whatever, some folder) now you place shortcuts to that folder and name them some shorthand, then it works the same as your trick (win+r >np>enter opens notepad for me)

famousmodification 1 point2 points 4 months ago[-]

Or put it in the start menu. Win > n > enter.

ultimatt42 7 points8 points 4 months ago[-]

Or open up a shortcut to notepad, click in the box next to Shortcut key and type N. Then all you have to do is press Ctrl+Alt+N

zrenneh 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

Or put it in your quick launch bar. The first item in the quick launch opens with Win + 1, the second with Win + 2 etc.

scarymoo 10 points11 points 4 months ago[-]

I came here to say derp derp derp, everyone knows about Notepad already. Then you taught me something new. Thanks for the schooling.

someperson 184 points185 points 4 months ago[-]

So you use Notepad as a notepad? Interesting…

w3lcome_home 29 points30 points 4 months ago[-]

It's unheard of!

mleland 25 points26 points 4 months ago[-]

Get him!

UnicornMeat 12 points13 points 4 months ago[-]

Burn the witch!

putmoneyinthypurse 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

Run away!

Feverant 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

after we check to see if they weigh more than a duck.

bglazer 221 points222 points 4 months ago[-]

This has resulted in some hilarious unnamed.txt files on my desktop. I'll open something hungover one morning and it will just say "Chiccken" or "BEer imn car".

My favorite was "AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR"

hatboysam 12 points13 points 4 months ago[-]

Damn you, I should be studying for Physics AP but instead I am laughing out loud at the word "Chiccken".

antipode 15 points16 points 4 months ago[-]

Hahahah this is a hilarious post. I do the same thing.

rchase 164 points165 points 4 months ago[-]

I always used notepad, but now I use Notepad++. You never have to close a text file. It launches, and all of the several projects, note lists, and todos come up, nicely tabbed. It's as fast, or faster than notepad, and has many more features.

Zakuzaa [S] 32 points33 points 4 months ago[-]

I agree the tabs feature is great. I don't know why I tend to give so much importance to load time.

rchase 151 points152 points 4 months ago[-]

Well, I just timed them. Notepad opened in .98 seconds, and Notepad++ with 12 tabs opened in 1.61. Though this equates to 10.5 minutes delta over 1,000 uses, you still have to open the 12 documents in Notepad (which you can't do because you need 12 instances of Notepad.)

I therefore declare Notepad++ to be massively more efficient.

whoisbeardface 122 points123 points 4 months ago[-]

I am impressed with your serious evaluation of this serious topic. I for one will sleep better tonight knowing there is a way to save 10.5 minutes of my life.

For reals though nice work.

[deleted] 64 points65 points 4 months ago[-]

That's 10.5 extra fap minutes dude..

mikebeer 22 points23 points 4 months ago[-]

That's like, 50-60 more times I can fap!

IanMcKellen 9 points10 points 4 months ago[-]

And I'm using broadband, so I'm saving even more time! It's awesome! What a wonderful, futuristic society we're living in.

[deleted] 25 points26 points 4 months ago[-]

Which you can't do because you need 12 instances of Notepad

I tried to figure out what you meant by this, but I could only imagine you were saying it was impossible to have more than x instances of Notepad open simultaneously, so I put this to the test.

MYTH BUSTED.

tsemnivar 14 points15 points 4 months ago[-]

He's basically saying that you'll have to load up each individual file as a separate instance in notepad, which is not as fast as notepad++ just loading up automatically with 12 tabs worth of files.

MrKas 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

I see what you did there...

rchase 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

Yes. I was unclear. I was referring to the tab functionality. I meant, once you launch notepad, you still only have 1 notepad. To get all 12 .txt files open, you have to launch notepad 11 more times.

So though Notepad++ took significantly longer to launch, you need to multiply the notepad result by twelve + your manual search time. One could, of course, select all twelve .txt files, hit enter, and get 12 instances of notepad up in (perhaps?) the same launch time as Notepad++, but then, really, you've just got a fucking mess on your hands (as is illustrated by your screenshot.)

In Notepad++, you just click the shortcut, and all of your files are up and ready. Set it to launch on boot, and you can forget about it. It's a perfect storm of text editing convenience.

plulz 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

pp ~/dee% time vim -p *.d -s <(echo ':qall')
43 files to edit
vim -p *.d -s <(echo ':qall')  0.27s user 0.04s system 61% cpu 0.514 total
pp ~/dee% uname -p    
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz

just sayin'

Tomble 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

My problem would be ending up with 800 opened tabs in about a month.

consigntooblivion 3 points4 points 4 months ago[-]

plus, it notices when files that are opened are changed by some external program.

Oh, and I have shell integration - so I right click on any file no matter what the extension is and I have an "Edit with Notepad++" option.

MirkOutSwirvOut 113 points114 points 4 months ago[-]

I use "a" notepad...the paper kind. Easier to carry around with me. :)

lemonparty 156 points157 points 4 months ago[-]

you rogue analog freak!

fischermansfriend 10 points11 points 4 months ago[-]

Hey, I googled your name. Turns out you're a little freaky, you too.

Zakuzaa [S] 82 points83 points 4 months ago[-]

Too bad, you are deprived of ctrl+z

ultrasarah 67 points68 points 4 months ago[-]

It's called "crossing out"

Zakuzaa [S] 124 points125 points 4 months ago[-]

Great. Now try to "uncross" it.

submanifold 82 points83 points 4 months ago[-]

write "ignore crossing out. this should be here!"

thepensivepoet 39 points40 points 4 months ago[-]

And then cross that out and come back a few days later.

foocs 81 points82 points 4 months ago[-]

"JOHN G. RAPED AND MURDERED MY WIFE"

deepfriedarjun 8 points9 points 4 months ago[-]

My thoughts exactly.

digitallimit 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

I don't know why, but I just burst out laughing - I don't get the reference.

the5thdentist 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

Memento reference.

timewarp 8 points9 points 4 months ago[-]

Written by M. Night Shyamalan.

riposte 17 points18 points 4 months ago[-]

writing "stet" is the correct way to do that, fyi

lechatcestmoi 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

"stet" is a bit more succinct. I have a moleskin I use for pretty much everything as well. It is so handy having a notebook to hand.

omaca 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

Or, if you're really retro, just write "stet" beside it.

I can't believe I'm so old as to know that...

jandalofdoom 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

Or better yet, write "stet" next to the cross-out.

converted_lurker 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

That's really more of a font change than an "undo"

[deleted] 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

That has a feature my fancy phone doesn't. You can drop it.

seanmharcailin 18 points19 points 4 months ago[-]

i dropped my iPhone on my MacBook and dented both.

dignition 35 points36 points 4 months ago[-]

Some of those devices bruise like an apple.

orangepotion 3 points4 points 4 months ago[-]

How do you type your reddit comments?

I know tis person that answers to emails by having his secretary print them and giving them to him, he then writes an appropriate answer that the secretaries then type and print, which he goes over, making modifications, etc. The final printout without modifications is then typed and emailed.

crabperson 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

Don't you have a problem with the loading time?

DarkBlueAnt 104 points105 points 4 months ago[-]

Predictions for the mundane top story on Reddit tomorrow:

-Who else brushes their teeth with a finger when they don't have a toothbrush?

-Who else sometimes slips their feet into shoes without untying the laces?

-Who else sends reminders to their own e-mail addresses?

-Who else is embarrassed to fart in toilet stalls?

joe12321 16 points17 points 4 months ago[-]

People seriously brush their teeth with their finger? Never in my life...

SunnyWthAChnceOTroll 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

Surprisingly effective...

omaca 36 points37 points 4 months ago[-]

Shit.

  • Me.
  • Me.
  • Me.
  • Me.

stukininja 10 points11 points 4 months ago[-]

Dude. I also do all of those. We must be connected or something, this is totally freaky!

saladpower 14 points15 points 4 months ago[-]

I don't just sometimes slip my feet into my shoes without tying the laces, I always slip my feet into my shoes without tying the laces.

DanCorb 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

toto27 21 points22 points 4 months ago[-]

notepad is basicly my extended clipboard mostly

[deleted] 31 points32 points 4 months ago[-]

I use Google docs for everything (they wish).

ElBeh 12 points13 points 4 months ago[-]

In all seriousness, though, Google Tasks is a pretty great task/list application.

farra 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

Google Tasks would rock if there were an API!

ElBeh 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

Agreed. After Offline support, an API is what it needs most.

mj564a5e46hfdd58 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

what?

googlespyware 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

I use Google docs for everything (they wish).

I know you don't use GD for everything yet. It's still TO DO item nr. 5 on your list, or at least it was until last night when I last checked.

robjob 11 points12 points 4 months ago[-]

I use notepad to remove formatting from stuff when copy pasting between office programs. It's less clicks than "Paste Text Only" and is good at unfucking spreadsheets.

SarcasticMan 9 points10 points 4 months ago[-]

I used to use textpad for notes and had todo lists for several topics in my documents folder. I've switched to using onenote for school and all my todo lists are in that now.

sundancekid503 9 points10 points 4 months ago[-]

I too like using OneNote over notepad for this sort of thing as it's just as easy and quick to open (Windows-N), but the thing I like most is that it automatically saves your notes if you accidentally close the window.

deltorted 4 points5 points 4 months ago* [-]

Autosave in OneNote is awesome. This isn't like Word's "auto-save"; OneNote, to my knowledge, saves as you type.

OneNote 2010 adds versioning and revisions as well.

Actually, the only thing I don't like about OneNote is that it lacks platform support, unlike, say, Evernote. Office Web Apps will hopefully solve that a little (once they get around to launching it, that is).

sinckyle 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

OneNote is great! I use it for to-do lists, birthday present list, academic information, etc.

babycheeses 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

I use Onenote as a framework for creating documenation while I do projects. I document everything as I go, then use that section to create the documentation that I upload to Sharepoint.

It saves me days of nonsense documenation and makes me more productive as I work. It's my constant scratch-pad.

hoyfkd 22 points23 points 4 months ago* [-]

tomboy

Edit: I should point out that I have been using Keepnote lately. It is a new project and well worth the time to try out. It uses rich text, which gives you more flexibility that tomboy formating-wise, and is similar to keynote.

smegmatic 11 points12 points 4 months ago[-]

links between notes are the key feature. a personal wiki is a very nice thing to have.

Zakuzaa [S] 8 points9 points 4 months ago[-]

Tip: tiddlywiki

Vystril 17 points18 points 4 months ago[-]

I just open a terminal and use vim.

noiserr 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

And it opens quickly even when you're remote.

p4mi 10 points11 points 4 months ago[-]

Org-mode in Emacs. Org-mode is the reason enough by itself to learn Emacs.

high_brace 8 points9 points 4 months ago[-]

I use notepad++. Its free, has tabs, and remembers what tabs you had open last time you used it.

ihaveideas 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

over the last month, 90% of my work has been done in notepad++, it's like my new home.

withad 17 points18 points 4 months ago[-]

If I recall correctly, Notepad won an award a while ago (most useful basic coding tool or something) and they tried to present an award but no one at Microsoft actually knew who first made it.

bassett 9 points10 points 4 months ago[-]

dibs

ludenu 43 points44 points 4 months ago[-]

I switched from firefox to chrome because chrome is like the notepad of browsers.

FUCKSHITFUCKSHITFUCK 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

Fast, bare and featureless, runs in separate processes, does what it should, shitty (or no) auto save.

Very true.

T1MT1M 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

wait, shitty or no autosave? I currently have 20 - 30 tabs open in chrome, and the first tabs in line are for an assignment which i havent referenced that has been open for about 3 weeks.

PurpleSfinx 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

bare and featureless

That's just not true. Chrome does everything I ever did in Firefox and more.

It has bookmark sync, extensions, built in greasemonkey extension support, themes, and more.

No auto save? Of what?? Your tabs? It has that.

rbnc 32 points33 points 4 months ago[-]

vi

tamrix 25 points26 points 4 months ago[-]

m

LinuxFreeOrDie 246 points247 points 4 months ago[-]

Wow guys really. I hate to be that guy, but asking if anyone else uses notepad for its intended purpose? The top voted comment quotes you and says "same here". No new information added.

Is this what askreddit has become? This is so pointless. Of course people use notepad.

KittyCatMan 80 points81 points 4 months ago[-]

I wish /r/AskReddit could somehow filter DAE posts and automatically post them to /r/DoesAnybodyElse instead.

Hides-His-Eyes 83 points84 points 4 months ago[-]

DAE not read DAE because it's so dull?

mrsammercer 105 points106 points 4 months ago[-]

DAE like pizza sometimes or am I weird?

Hides-His-Eyes 16 points17 points 4 months ago[-]

DAE pinch and roll?

Llammasaurus 3 points4 points 4 months ago[-]

When i first read your comment I had no idea what it meant. Then, as I was relieving an itch on my scrotum I realized....

Edit: I hope thats what you were referring to.

thedailynathan 19 points20 points 4 months ago[-]

Technically this is the purpose of mods.

stinkytaco 28 points29 points 4 months ago* [-]

You're just jealous that Linux doesn't have Notepad. vi... pfft.

EDIT: Yes, I know there are lots of text editors for Linux. That's why I thought it was funny...

snuxoll 12 points13 points 4 months ago[-]

nano

bumbleskull 13 points14 points 4 months ago[-]

gedit, kate, kwrite, mousepad ....

sifumokung 7 points8 points 4 months ago* [-]

I use Tomboy, it allows me to link to other notes and keep them organized in "books".

EDIT: Typo

SupersonicSpitfire 7 points8 points 4 months ago[-]

gedit, except that it's a lot better. It can color sourcecode and has plugins.

nileshp87 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

gedit

BennyG02 7 points8 points 4 months ago[-]

gedit?

derefr 11 points12 points 4 months ago[-]

I always thought of Notepad as "that thing you can edit source code and configuration files in, when you don't have a proper IDE installed, without breaking anything." It never occurred to me that you could use it for, y'know, notes.

lpetrazickis 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

In XP, Notepad chokes on Unix-style line breaks.

brainburger 8 points9 points 4 months ago[-]

You love being that guy.

blueshift9 10 points11 points 4 months ago[-]

We may all use Notepad, but most ordinary people don't. They look at it like "We'll I've got Word, and I can't make things bold here".

argleblarg 11 points12 points 4 months ago[-]

My sense was that notepad was sort of outmoded, and that probably a lot of people these days didn't bother with it. Obviously that's not the case, but hey. Sorry to have offended?

doriangray 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

Letting the thread grow a bit led to a bunch of helpful tips make it to the top comment. I'm now opening Notepad with Win+1 and adding timestamps with F5, all thanks to this thread.

rainergamer 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

DAE use notepad to jot down notes?

coup [!] 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

Yep, and I always use it to copy and paste unformatted text between places.

johnnyenglish 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

I use vim. Advantages over notepad:

  • 'dd' to delete a line (with 'p' to put it back somewhere else)
  • syntax highlighting to emphasise lines I have tagged as 'important' or 'urgent'
  • easy incremental search

joeyisapest 10 points11 points 4 months ago[-]

I use empty file folders. also quick.

right click

New folder

type what you need to type

wesmwatson 8 points9 points 4 months ago[-]

For the poor and moral folks who won't buy or torrent MS Office, you should know that Wordpad (not Notepad, Wordpad) in Vista and 7 has all the features that you actually use (as well as the EXACT same interface) from Microsoft Word. Open it up sometime, you'll be amazed at how much less it sucks than the XP one.

The only things it doesn't have are headers and margins (sorry, English majors) and charts, which I do really like.

[deleted] 9 points10 points 4 months ago[-]

I'm pretty sure that's what it's for.

weicool 34 points35 points 4 months ago[-]

I'm on a Mac and I use Stickies.

homosapiens 45 points46 points 4 months ago[-]

TextEdit baby, TextEdit!

Falsey 10 points11 points 4 months ago[-]

I'd completely forgotten about this program so I hit spotlight and opened it up. I had one sticky that just said "lolfag". :(

theExtrapolater 10 points11 points 4 months ago[-]

textmate. Does everything. End of story.

jamesmcm 3 points4 points 4 months ago[-]

Does it have something like orgmode?

DJQuinones 9 points10 points 4 months ago[-]

Ditto.

And I use Sticky Notes on my Windows 7 desktop at home.

jamesmcm 7 points8 points 4 months ago[-]

Emacs and orgmode, it's better than simple text really.

squirrel5978 30 points31 points 4 months ago[-]

EMACS. It should never be not running.

[deleted] 4 months ago[-]

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Jawajoey 14 points15 points 4 months ago[-]

Guh. I can't stand emacs.

When I first used it, I hated it, but assumed that it was just because I was new. All those hardcore programmers couldn't be wrong, could they?

Then I used it more, learned some of the tricks, and still hated it just as much. But I knew that there still a lot of stuff emacs could do that I didn't even know about.

After a long break (during which I discovered Notepad++), I used emacs again, remembered how much I hated it, and finally realized that it's not my fault. I just plain hate emacs.

I'm gonna stick to text editors that aren't older than I am.

jansw 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

I start emacs --daemon with my session, and connect via emacsclient -c subsequently. That way, Emacs is always there, looking after me :)

bloodwire 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

I use vim for the same reason, it opens really quickly, it is fast to use, and much more powerful than notepad.

gemidjy 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

vim opens faster. I use that.

detarmstrong 5 points6 points 4 months ago[-]

Notepad giant meh.

Tomboy: http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/

stalk_of_fennel 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

I use an actual notepad because it opens even faster. its also so much more portable.

misplacedme 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

I don't. If my computer is on, it's guaranteed to have notepad++ running. No need for smelly old notepad.

Zakuzaa [S] 3 points4 points 4 months ago[-]

Tried ++ for a day or two, but it was slower so I made up with the smelly again.

Greyh0und 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

Try notepad2. If you want it to look like the Windows version go to 'Settings', at the bottom you'll see 'Show Toolbar' and 'Show Statusbar', tick both off. And ofcourse a howto replace notepad with notepad2

HighOnAmbien 8 points9 points 4 months ago[-]

I use gedit which is very similar and opens instantly.

Fritchard 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

when my phone rings at work WIN+R+"notepad" + ENTER is like second nature. I noticed my wife do the same thing last night. Almost teared up a bit.

longshot 3 points4 points 4 months ago[-]

Windows-key + r

Type notepad

Hit return

Bam! Notepad is open.

musashiXXX 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

From a bash shell:

cat <<EOF | lp
1) Toothpaste
2) Toilet paper
3) Dog food
[...]
20) Beer
EOF

Kozmo199 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

I used to use notepad, but when I got Windows 7 the gadgets actually became useful and didn't take up 40% of my processing power to run. Now, I have a Post-It's desktop gadget that it's even better, because I can just move my mouse to the lower right and see all my notes, instead of having to boot notepad and open a "notes.txt" file.

bobthenarwhal 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

Same idea, I use TextEdit or Googledocs. Does anyone have similar tips and tricks for TextEdit, like what was listed for notepad logs above?

BoUnCy1337 6 points7 points 4 months ago[-]

Macs have the stickies program just for this purpose =P

calc3892 8 points9 points 4 months ago[-]

I have so many .txt files on my computer it's not even funny.

notepad.exe <3

knellotron 4 points5 points 4 months ago[-]

Maybe you should start a personal wiki, like Dokuwiki. Or Tiddlywiki, if you want zero configuration.

lordted 1 point2 points 4 months ago[-]

TextEdit

trevordtodd 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

I always use Notepad to remove any Fonts from texts...

[deleted] 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

Windows 7 stickynotes for me.

[deleted] 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

I use notepad to remove formatting from everything else before pasting it to either Word or OpenOffice. Is there a better way to do this?

JumpingJesus 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

I use cat.

As in:

$ cat > todo.txt

  1. something

  2. something else

  3. last thing

^D

$

Vim to change the TODO list.

LoveAndDoubt 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

Yes, and I have many "New Text Document (3).txt" files to show for it.

ideal2545 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

I fucking love notepad

getoutofmyhead 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

I use Notepad++. It opens just as fast, but is much more useful.

Wmodj2 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

Notepad and Paint. I use paint everyday for quickness.

jollyllama 2 points3 points 4 months ago[-]

Same idea, but TextEdit on the Mac. Why would you ever use a tool that's heavier than you need it to be?