Automatically Save with Notepad like you can with Word?

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Yo!

Is it possible to somehow automatically save your documents in notepad like
you can with word?

Maybe a script or something or a utility that I don't know about?
 
Notepad only displays ASCII characters. Aside from documents that
contain only text, what other types of documents would you like to save
in .txt format?
 
| Yo!
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| Is it possible to somehow automatically save your documents in notepad like
| you can with word?
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| Maybe a script or something or a utility that I don't know about?
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Why not use a free program like EditPad Lite for all your text documents.
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offers all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.

Some highlights:
You can open as many files in EditPad at a time as you want.

You change between the open files by clicking on their tabs. No hassle with heaps of overlapping windows.

EditPad does not impose a limit on the size of files you can open and edit with it.

Also, the maximum length of a single line is not limited. (Most other editors cannot handle lines longer than, say, a thousand characters, even if they do claim to support files of unlimited size.)

You will enjoy EditPad's unlimited undo and redo. You can even undo changes after saving them, as long as you did not close the file.

EditPad supports all Windows and ISO-8859 code pages, plus a wide selection of DOS, KOI8 and EBCDIC code pages. This means EditPad can edit any text file, whether it was saved on a Windows or Linux computer, an old DOS PC or an IBM mainframe.

Reopen menu that lists the last 16 files opened.
 
Ted Zieglar said:
Notepad only displays ASCII characters. Aside from documents that
contain only text, what other types of documents would you like to save
in .txt format?
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What are you talking about? I think you're responding to the wrong message. He didn't ask about opening Word documents in Notepad,
he asked if there is a way to make Notepad autosave like the way that Word does.



No, there's not inherent way, Notepad is a simple editor. There are however other editors that can do it, including free ones,
simple ones like Notepad, and free, simple ones.

One option to SIMULATE autosave in Notepad is to use a keystroke simulator. With a decent macro type program, you can program it to
automatically send the keystroke Ctrl+S to any/all Notepad windows every so often. For example, with HotekayMaster, you could
easily set up a hotkey to send Ctrl+S to a Notepad window every 5 minutes or so.
 
In Notepad, you can simply press CTRL+S to save the file.
This will save the changes to an existing file or bring up the Save As dialog for a new file.
 
Ronnie Vernon MVP said:
In Notepad, you can simply press CTRL+S to save the file.
This will save the changes to an existing file or bring up the Save As dialog for a new file.
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That's not what joesf16, is asking. He is asking if there is a way to make Notepad automatically save the file every few minutes
the way tha Word does.


Why is this so difficult for people to understand? Have you people never heard of autosave before?
 
In Notepad, you can simply press CTRL+S to save the file.
That's not what joesf16, is asking. He is asking if there is a way to
make Notepad automatically save the file every few minutes
the way tha Word does.


Why is this so difficult for people to understand? Have you people never
heard of autosave before?
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No kidding. I'm pretty sure the OP knows all about Ctrl-S. That was such a
Microsoft Tech Support answer.
 
Homer J. Simpson said:
No kidding. I'm pretty sure the OP knows all about Ctrl-S. That was such a
Microsoft Tech Support answer.
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I know what you mean. Unfortunately it's not even just Microsoft but most big companies. For example, when you submit feedback
(even a BUG REPORT, forget about an inquiry) to ATI, you get an automated, boilerplate response based on the category you select in
the form. You have to follow up at least once to get an actual person to even read the feedback.
 
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