> Implicit in this is a recognition, or at least a claim, that regular windows users don't have any need to inspect or manipulate anything other than a few file types
Regular windows users are mostly corporate and there are (management excepted, of course) a lot of file types to be manipulated. (CAD, MS Office, etc)
True, I didnt explain myself very clearly. An editor serves two functions: to open text files, and to act as the Program of Last Resort to open an unfamiliar file type. Id like something beefier than Notepad for the first, but I could live with it: but Id really like something with the power of Notepad++ for the second use case, built into Windows. However its far outside the mainline for windows corporate users since they probably never get sent filetyoes for which they do not already have the right app to open it.
Regular windows users are mostly corporate and there are (management excepted, of course) a lot of file types to be manipulated. (CAD, MS Office, etc)