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[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It was specifically never intended to, that's why we had wordpad and write, until M$ killed them to push office

There are a lot of config files that break if edited in a rich text editor, notepad makes sure that every machine comes with a package that can cleanly edit flat text files for that reason.

[-] memoryfoam44@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

It’s possible for a program to handle both plain text and rich text.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Which write does, and on occasion was accidentally used to create malformed plaintext files that borked many a device

So they made sure to include at least one explicitly plaintext only editor, to prevent such mistakes.

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