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Or, since GP said "mark all text", use Ctrl/Command+A.

Of course neither of these would demonstrate the effect they were talking about.

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    ggVG

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  ggVG

I typed that into Notepad and it did exactly what I expected: it displayed 'ggVG' in the edit window. I can even save it to a file!

Thank you for the tip.