Freaking Notepad Issue

[taylor810]

The word-wrap feature in XP Pro notepad seems to have a bug; I'm going
to blow an o-ring if I can't get this figured out.

I use notepad to dump my ideas down, move them around, edit, and
wordsmith. When I'm done, I select all, copy, then go into Word, paste
as unformatted text, and start tagging.

Problem is, when working in notepad, moving blocks of text around or
deleting or typing in new text, text moves around haphazardly- whole
lines, bits of text, lines & spaces added randomly, etc.

At first I didn't know what was going on, so I'd try to delete all the
extra spacing & piece the lines back together. More often than not, it
would just make things worse. I'd save the file & re-open it, only to
find that the "spaces" I thought I were deleting were really parts of
my text.

Which leads me to believe it's a rendering problem. Just for kicks one
time I turned off word-wrap, then turned it right back on, and the text
re-displayed correctly.

This happens on my machine at home (XP Home) and work (XP Pro). Is this
a known bug, and if so, is there a fix?

I know I could download one of the many freeware text editors and use
it instead, but I'd rather not if I can avoid it.

Thanks for your help -


Dan

 

[Bob I]

If "Notepad" formatting issues are a problem Use "Wordpad" instead.

 

[Uncle Joe]

Or MS Word in Outline mode. I use it to accomplish the same
things you're trying to do with Notepad, but with considerably
more ease. Plus, you'd have access to a spell checker.

 

[Bob I]

But Word may not be installed. (Not part of Windows)

 

[taylor810]

Hey guys - thanks for the feedback. Like I said, I know there are other
options out there, but if there is a solution for the notepad issue I'd
prefer to keep using it. Not a major deal, but it's the way I work
quickest. I never had an issue until I started using XP.. Thanks,


Dan

 

[Uncle Joe]

But if it is...

Otherwise, I'm in complete agreement with you.

 

[Matt]

I think that's just the way Notepad works, it remembers line breaks if you
enable word wrap and then save the document.