what is wrong with microsoft notepad?

[Randall Twede]

this sounds like a real question, but it is meaningless drivel in a way since i don't really need it.
it quit working a while back. when you open a .txt file it is all 000's same thing if you try to type something. all 000's
does anyone know how to fix this? or more likely, where to download a copy(for Windows XP)?

[Paul Clapham]

I guess your question is a real question, and not just an invitation for anti-Notepad rants, so I've moved it out of the Meaningless Drivel forum.

[Steve Luke]

Is it because you setup a bad font? Go to Format > Font and make sure you are on something with a Western script.

[Randall Twede]

to where?

[Steve Luke]

Randall Twede wrote:to where?

In Notepad, Format menu, Font command.

[Randall Twede]

sorry steve, "to where" meant i didn't know where he moved the thread.
thanks steve, that was the problem.
probably happened when i had my mouse disconnected and was using the laptop thingy

[Pat Farrell]

real men don't use notepad, they use vi or emacs

[J. Kevin Robbins]

I'm fairly certain this one has been covered before, but I can't resist. Personally, I despise emacs but that's largely because of the horrible experience I had with it on a Coursera course. If I can't have an IDE, then I want Notepad++.

Real Programmers

[Ulf Dittmer]

Notepad++ is a decent editor, though.

[Peter Johnson]

I second the Notepad++ recommendation, notepad itself has way to many deficiencies the major ones being inability to load large files (Notepad++ is happy to load very large log files) and being unable to handle Unix-formatted text files.