Blogger and Microsoft employee Derek Dysart has posted a great tip for automatically dating every new entry in a text file edited with Notepad. Open a blank Notepad file Write .LOG (in uppercase ...

For more than three decades Notepad couldn't display all text files correctly. Now thanks to a new update, it can finally will. Previously, Notepad wasn't able to find the correct line endings.

Does not show line numbers next to each line Does not support advanced search and replace features. Does not open text files from other platforms in a readable manner. Can't change the background ...

Notepad saw barely any major changes for decades following its arrival in 1983, but the editor has undergone several upgrades in recent years.