I keep reading about the new changes coming to notepad.

Here's what that is supposed to do.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/05/08/extended-eol-in-notepad/

However, you don't need to wait for this change as there are many text/code editors that you can use. For example here's my list.

Notepad ++ - This is a source code editor and notepad replacement for those that need a bit more from a notepad editor.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

RJ-TextEd - A Unicode source and text editor
http://www.rj-texted.se/index.html

Visual Studio Code - Another free source code editor.
https://code.visualstudio.com/

I just installed visual studio code and got this error, but it opened fine.

And here's the page that opens after the program installs. I'm not crazy about web pages opening automatically after you install a program though. I'm not a programmer, I just wanted to see what this one looked like for myself. I like finding programs that are simple to use and just work.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs?start=true