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The addition of tabs to Notepad has made me stop using it entirely. My entire workflow around it was having separate windows for each document that I could move and close freely. Having an all-in-one-place Notepad filled with the ghosts of API tokens past is precisely the opposite of what I needed.

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But you can still open multiple windows?

It doesn't open in new windows by default, which was enough for me to stop using it.

I think it takes maybe 3 clicks to set up "old style notepad". I don't understand the harsh criticism? I don't use it myself since I have a sublime license, and st3 opens up instantly, but I don't think the new changes to notepad are the end of the world.

I don’t understand why anything I said is a “harsh criticism” or “the end of the world.” I don’t actually care about Notepad! It might have taken 3 clicks to set it up, but it took zero clicks to say “this is a change I didn’t want and I don’t care enough to learn how to fix it, I’ll just use something else.”

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