For the first time in 40 years, Windows will ship without built-in word processor

Technology@beehaw.org – 213 points – 10 months ago

Thus ending our long national nightmare of accidentally opening things in WordPad on a fresh install.

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I don't care as long as they don't take away NotePad. NotePad has useful features I'd hate to lose - such as stripping out all formatting, and being able to search/replace wildcard characters as themselves, rather than as wildcards.

CTRL+Shift+V to paste without formatting.

Have a look at NotePad++, it even has regex-search.