I have a superior text editor recommendation for you. You've got to get the Crimson Editor text editor. It's a vastly superior text editor compared to Microsoft Windows NotePad. Before I go on, look just below for the URL for the Crimson Editor site

You can download Crimson Editor for free there. (BTW, I don't make a dime recommending Crimson Editor. It is free, but donate a few bucks to the author; it's worth it.)

In my old screen capture videos (now obsolete, not available), I was showing using Notepad for editing for article submissions. Each time, I had to remind viewers to turn Word Wrap off. It's off by default in Crimson Editor. For Notepad, I had to remind viewers to turn on the Status Bar. The Crimson Editor Status Bar line is always on, so that you can always see at which line and character you are.

If that was all there was, you may be wondering why bother to switch? How about that Crimson Editor eliminates an annoying, to me, anyway, Notepad cursor action when looking at character position and line lengths. With Notepad, when you move the cursor down past an empty line, the cursor will go to the first character position and stay there even when you go to the next line that has some text. Crimson Editor maintains the cursor character position when you scroll up and down with the arrow keys. Crimson Editor remembers, and goes back to where it was or to the end of the next line with text, depending on which is less. For editing for article submissions, this means you can put the cursor on character 60 of a line, then just run the cursor up and down with the arrow keys and instantly see if there are any lines over 60 characters long. Saves a lot of time editing article submission Resource Boxes, for instance.

How about blank characters at the end of lines? With Notepad, you have no way of knowing other than by checking each line. With Crimson, you don't care; there is a command that automatically wipes them all out, so the line lengths you think you see are the true line lengths.

How many levels of Undo does Notepad have? One. With Crimson Editor, there are unlimited Undos; you can go all the way back to when you opened a document, if you want to. You probably won't need that many, but you could likely use at least two or three levels from time to time. Much better than just a one level toggle like Notepad's.

More things to like about Crimson Editor. Do you want to print out just a selection rather than the whole document? Wouldn't you like having more than one more than one document open, with tabbed selection of the one to be made active? Split screen? Horizontal or Vertical Tiled display? Maybe you'd like a cascaded display of the open documents?

Do you want flexible and powerful Find and Replace? Do Find and Replace on just the current document or all open documents? Insert or Overwrite text mode? An at-a-glance indication on the tabs as to whether changes have been saved?

Do you want Print Preview, custom headers and footers for each page?

Crimson Editor does all that and more.

And, if you are a programmer, or you just write or edit HTML or maybe PHP, JavaScript, CSS files, etc., you'll love what Crimson Editor can also do for you. Crimson Editor displays color-coded syntax keywords and variables, etc.

For example, if you are editing HTML and you type "&mbsp;" instead of " " you will notice your error immediately as the incorrect version won't be color-coded as a correct one will be.

Crimson Editor shows or hide line numbers, as you wish. It lets you print with or without line numbers.

When you put your cursor on a parenthesis, bracket, or curly bracket, that item is indicated along with it's opening or closing mate, wherever it may be in the document.

For these reasons and many more, Crimson Editor is better than Notepad. And it's fast and easy. Here's the URL again:

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

And remember, I don't make a dime recommending it -- although I sure would try if I could.

Crimson Editor has an upgrade. The version I was using is 3.70. The newer version is 3.72. Version 3.70 was working fine for me. But, dumbass me, I thought: "Why not get the latest and greatest?" Well, 3.72 works OK for editing itself, but I have a couple of "issues" with it. Or is it Microsucks Windows?  Hard to tell.

The first issue is major for me: I had the Windows "file association" set so that when you click on a text file (".txt") in Windows Explorer, it opens in Crimson Editor, not NotePad. Worked fine in 3.70. After installing 3.72 and uninstalling 3.70, no way I could get that association set. Windows ignored my clicking on the program after browsing for it to set the ".txt" association. Reboot (and WIndows takes forever to close down and restart) and try again. No luck.

A minor gripe is that in the new version, the currently selected file tab is made very dark. It is a good addition that that is now highlighted, but it is too dark. I didn't look to see if I could change that.

But the inablility to get the "file association" for ".txt" set to Crimson instead of NotePad or some other program was a deal killer for me. So, I uninstalled 3.72, and went back to 3.70. Works like a champ again.