notepad

notepad indeed seems to be useful.

the main advantage is that, when copying text from a website or a word document, the format is not copied. so if i select and copy text from a website and paste it in microsoft word or any other sophisticated editor (the pathetic joomla editor for example), the color of the text is also copied. this becomes a headache when editing the content or combining content from different sources. this is where notepad comes in handy. it reads text is some basic format. (ascii most probably, am not sure)both while copying from and copying into.

I never realized this before. I thought notepad was just a useless windows application, which no one ever uses. So yeah, advanced editors exist, but notepad is irreplacable (or the basic editors that come in other OSs)