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Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Then those features in VS Code were most likely heavily inspired by Notepad++ as well. Notepad++ was publicly released in 2003, which in computing terms may as well be the neolithic era.

TL;DR: There's no reason to stick with a shitty Microsoft application for this task since N++ exists and is, was, and probably forever will be superior.