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Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I paste blocks of text or data into it, then copy it out again so I dont infect document B with document A's weird formatting

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ctrl+Shift+V pastes without formatting.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It doesn't fix artificial line break issues though. Simple text editors are perfect for stopping some text from looking unnecessarily like poetry.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I am 46 how am I just learning this now?!

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

incredibly pro tip, I use this all the time