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Originally Posted by fidvo
You can have the best of both worlds if you set Calibre to not open text files natively. When you double-click the dummy file in Calibre, it would send it out to Windows to handle, which in your case would open it in Notepad2.
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I use the open source Rocket Dock to keep frequently used programs in an auto-hide toolbar at the top of my screen, and Notepad2 is one. I was thinking of a shortcut that invoked it editing that file.
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A number of people have recommended having such a dummy file in Calibre for several purposes, including a placeholder for tags that aren't being used by any other books yet. I use one to store odd formats for configuring the Open With plugin. Funnily enough, most of these ideas don't really have any use for the actual contents of the file, which is what gave me the idea of using it for copy/paste snippets.
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I'll have to play with the dummy file. I suspect there are a variety of uses beyond what I'd like to do.
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By the way, I prefer Notepad++.
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I have it here, along with an assortment of other things that have Scintilla under the hood. (I collect text editors.) Notepad2 gets the nod for instantaneous invocation, the ability to set it to replace built-in Notepad, and the base subset of capabilities I need. Notepad++ is splendid, and I keep it up to date, but it does a lot of things I seldom need and is slower to invoke.
If I really want everything
including the kitchen sink in an editor, I have
Gnu Emacs installed as well.
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Dennis