There are quite a number of free third party text editor which is better than Notepad and our favorite one is definitely Notepad++ which we’ve been using it for several years already. Other than that, Notepad also doesn’t support tabs, regular expressions, bookmarks and many more functions that can make a text editor really powerful and useful. One of the biggest problem with Notepad is it does not recognize line breaks from text files created in UNIX or Mac OS operating systems which is the reason why sometimes you see a few very long sentence on a readme file. I find Notepad useful when I need to quickly take short notes and also to remove any rich text format especially when the text are copied from websites. It can open file extensions such as TXT, INI, LOG, BAT and etc as long as it is a text format.
The Notepad that comes in Windows is a very basic editing tool to view and edit text files.
