It was specifically never intended to, that’s why we had wordpad and write, until M$ killed them to push office
There are a lot of config files that break if edited in a rich text editor, notepad makes sure that every machine comes with a package that can cleanly edit flat text files for that reason.
But it still can’t handle rich text?
No, you need wordpad for that.
It was discarded recently.
For Win11 users, sure
It was specifically never intended to, that’s why we had wordpad and write, until M$ killed them to push office
There are a lot of config files that break if edited in a rich text editor, notepad makes sure that every machine comes with a package that can cleanly edit flat text files for that reason.
It’s possible for a program to handle both plain text and rich text.
Which write does, and on occasion was accidentally used to create malformed plaintext files that borked many a device
So they made sure to include at least one explicitly plaintext only editor, to prevent such mistakes.