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The natural upgrade for WordPad did never come: basic html or markdown editing.
Aren’t you describing Frontpage Express? I think it was bundled with Windows 98?
Off topic, but I'm loving the Mac equivalent, TextEdit. After trying every kind of fancy task management and note taking system from org-mode to Obsidian to Logseq, I now use a .rtfd (.rtf + images) on iCloud to act as a note-taking system / todo-list. I would have used pen and paper but I need to paste screenshots and URLs. There's an iOS app called RTF Write for 99c. Now I always have my notes, tasks, and shopping,…
As a tangential aside Textedit I believe used to be provided as sample source code with Xcode. So even if it was removed it may never die.
>There’s no reason to be outraged by this decision Actually, I have a reason to be outraged by this decision. I like using WordPad, and it will take me time and effort to find an adequate replacement for a simple note-taking application.
Try Obsidian.
I just want a basic rich-text editor that opens quickly and lets me quickly jot something down and save it as a file.
wordpad.exe is less than 3MB, while just the installer for Obsidian weighs in at 72MB.
> We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf Doesn’t Office require a paid license on top of the Windows license, unlike WordPad?
Install LibreOffice. If you were using WordPad before, LibreOffice will be a fine replacement for your purposes. https://www.libreoffice.org/
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> I literally could write a WordPad clone in an afternoon You might be able to make a Notepad clone in an afternoon, but not wordpad. Creating parsers for all the formats it supports (rtf/doc/html) as well as the renderer/wysiwyg editor would take anyone several days of either coding, or stitching libs together.
The parser and renderer is a pre-existing RichTextEdit widget. Add menus and save, open, and print functionality and you are over 90% of the way to a WordPad clone.
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The parser and renderer is a pre-existing RichTextEdit widget. Add menus and save, open, and print functionality and you are over 90% of the way to a WordPad clone.
It’s a pre built widget because Microsoft wrote it for WordPad though.
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Calligra Words looks nice. I trust anything KDE.
Is Calligra still under active development? The last stable point release was over 3 years ago.
[0] https://invent.kde.org/office/calligra/-/commits/master/
> We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf Doesn’t Office require a paid license on top of the Windows license, unlike WordPad?
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Install LibreOffice. If you were using WordPad before, LibreOffice will be a fine replacement for your purposes. https://www.libreoffice.org/
What’s the load time on LibreOffice these days? Years ago on Linux it took awhile. I use Notepad and Wordpad because they load fast.