Windows Notepad is dated<\/a> (back to Windows 1.0 in 1985); and there are a number of great freeware\/open source alternatives.  After reviewing several, I\u2019ve selected Notepad++ as my new notepad of choice.<\/p>\n

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Notepad++ can be downloaded from http:\/\/notepad-plus.sourceforge.net\/uk\/site.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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Two other very capable contenders are<\/p>\n

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• ConTEXT (my old favorite) from http:\/\/www.contexteditor.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n
• Programmer\u2019s Notepad from http:\/\/www.pnotepad.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Windows Notepad is dated (back to Windows 1.0 in 1985); and there are a number of great freeware\/open source alternatives.  After reviewing several, I\u2019ve selected Notepad++ as my new notepad of choice.   Notepad++ can be downloaded from http:\/\/notepad-plus.sourceforge.net\/uk\/site.htm   Two other very capable contenders are ConTEXT (my old favorite) from http:\/\/www.contexteditor.org\/ Programmer\u2019s Notepad from […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}