I am convinced this is some sort of practical joke to see how stupid an idea you can submit to HN and still get upvotes.

Either that, or I'm in the Twilight Zone.

Yes, I was talking about the windows notepad. I'm not saying the contenteditable notepad is better, just that I don't like notepad for writing - purely an aesthetic preference. Now it's been a while since I usd notepad, but iirc you can't have an inner max-width, or theming that persists restart (?)

Tried it out now and while typography changes do persist, I can't figure out how to change line height or background color.

> it's as simple as a plain text editor can get

Just because it is simple does not mean OP has to like it.

I'm assuming he's going for the minimalist notepad because of how bare bones the contenteditable notepad is.

the content-editable version lacks the most basic of features, such as search and replace. I don't think you can compare them at all.

So... someone doesn't like Notepad because it has search-and-replace, and preferred something kind of like notepad but without all those pesky features?