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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by Delfwood on Sunday January 07, 2024 @11:08AM (#38902334)
The only use case I have ever used Wordpad for was to open text files with Linux End-of-Lines on a Windows computer with only Wordpad and Notepad (that do not see LF as proper and of lines and just displays one line of mess).
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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by LMMojo on Sunday January 07, 2024 @11:12AM (#38902367)
Same here. Open a text file in Notepad and the contents extend way past the edge of the screen. Open it in WordPad and turn on line wrapping.

Oh! Also, needing to open an RTF when Word wasn't installed.

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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by recursive on Sunday January 07, 2024 @12:30PM (#38903129)
Why not turn on wrapping in notepad?
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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by jan_k_ on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:04PM (#38903471)
Notepad wouldn't recognize Unix line endings and would interpret the whole file as one line. Word wrapping doesn't fix that.
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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by recursive on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:44PM (#38903908)
Oh I see. Yes, I remember that.

FYI, notepad can cover this use case now, as it can handle more character encodings and line-endings.

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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by rzzzt on Sunday January 07, 2024 @05:56PM (#38906098)
There was also some weirdness where you could not have the status bar and word wrapping enabled at the same time.
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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by tjoff on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:04PM (#38906163)
FYI, nowadays notepad does support different line endings.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-n...

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