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Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count::Microsoft is finally adding a character count to Notepad on Windows 11. It’s in testing alongside the ability to hide the news feed in the widgets panel.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know a few people who use it to covert selections to plain text or keep a quick note. Notepad++ is more akin to an IDE if anything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ctrl + Shift + V will paste a selection in plain text.

Also I keep quick notes in Notepad++ because it's just as easy to open and it has persistent windows in case something happens.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ctrl + Shift + V will paste a selection in plain text.

*Sometimes

Because MS in their infinite Wisdom only baked that functionality into some of their apps, and even in some apps where that functionality exists, sometimes it's a different keybind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If set up PowerToys, you can enable that behaviour universally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Notepad also has persistent tabs now and you can close without saving