A program that knows it's limits (56 Kb files), is frugal on features and resources, and is elegant in it's simplicity: Microsoft's Notepad.
Don't get me wrong. I love Photoshop as much as the next person, but Notepad has never crashed on me.
My nomination for Executable of the Millennium
Posted by on Friday, August 25, 2000 - 5 comments
Comments
Isaac - August 26, 2001 1:43 am
Seeing as this was linked by nick, and now we have replies, i'd just like to point out that since windows 2000 - there has been no file size limit.
And it still has not crashed on me - definatly best software ever
abhi malani - December 1, 2002 5:42 am
hi,
i am looking forward to oneNote. but there is a better improvement to Notepad and that is http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/ it has awesome features and i recommend thatyou also try it out..
Notepad -> win2k/xp has impreoved a lot but while cut/copy/paste and alt+tab, it loses the place of the cursor and the area that was cut from. and basically the 9.x version doesn't have any good stuff apart from not hanging and being a small program. <56kb file accepted too. :)
daniel - December 4, 2002 8:34 pm
I agree. Notepad is a wonderful tool for jotting down anything. I always have about four text files on the Desktop with stuff I need to do, etc.
Sometimes it seems Notepad can go wierd when I turn Word Wrap on, and enlarge the window (all the lines stay the same length). Maybe its just me...
abhi - December 9, 2002 4:35 am
hi,
try cutting (ctrlx) some text then press alttab. and then go back to notepad and press ctrl z. the text position changes. also only one undo allowed.
metapad has 8-16. :)
Nick Burka - February 2, 2003 11:19 pm
Confidence. Shaken.
My system was running fine as usual when... I went to save a file from notepad, only for it to <i>freeze up</i>. Don't believe me? See this:
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<img src="http://www.whitelands.com/nick/notepad_crash.gif" width="354" height="250" />