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