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Notepad Bug: Monospace is not monospaced
Using a monospace font (Lucida Console), the text is not monospaced: Everything should line up correctly, like this (Screenshot from PuTTY, same font, Lucida Console): This...
December of 2025 and this is still a thing. Anyone know if MS is working on this?
I'll launch both of you even better: It's now February 2026, and this is still a thing! I agree MS is not motivated to fix this. No $$ to allocate to such a mundane issue, unless they thought revenue and/or a free data source might be at risk.
Here's a list of Notepad alternatives that understand what a monospace fonts is -- and as a bonus, don't send any data to Bing!
Notepad++
Sublime
UltraEdit
LopeEdit
TextPad
Vim/Emacs, etc. :)