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It checks for updates when you press the arrow keys, but not delete?
Right. Trying to understand why you would check for an update for a key that doesn't change data and not check for one that does. It also checks when the window loses focus, so works.
Aside from everything else, I have great respect for people who find bugs in widely used and long-established software. Even though this may not be a major bug, I admire the bugfinder just the same.
Notepad is indeed long established. But it's in active development. OK, that's an exaggeration, but it is occasionally developed, despite its appearance not changing much in 25 years. My favourite features it gained were support for Unix (LF) line endings, and support for normal UTF-8 (without a BOM).
It reminds me of this joke: Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.
This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows.
Or if they wrote to a database on change and read on every cycle. For correctness, blockchain may be suitable.
not asking to get into an app namedropping war, but do alot of ppl use Notepad still? Kind of moved away from it years ago due to encoding, lack of some features etc
If I just need to take a quick note, I'll happily run Notepad, which opens instantly , write down what I needed to write down, save it, and then move on with my life. The "runs instantly" part is what still makes it useful, nothing else comes even close to just immediately giving you a textbox to spew characters into. That's all it's for though, for real work, real editors (meaning different editors for different tas…
On my machine, when there's an Emacs daemon running in the background (so no existing windows, which might make this process faster), opening a new window ("frame" in Emacs terminology) and then closing it again takes 165 milliseconds total.
Google gives various values for "human reaction time", but one of them is 200 milliseconds.
I'd say that that's pretty close.
Unless you need to save those 12 MB of memory that the Emacs daemon consumes.
You're free to use whatever editor you want, but I find the claim that "nothing else comes even close to just immediately giving you a textbox to spew characters into" a bit doubtful.
Three cheers for a Windows bug that's not a gaping security hole!
This is a great challenge: can you piggy-back off this bug to escalate privileges?
not asking to get into an app namedropping war, but do alot of ppl use Notepad still? Kind of moved away from it years ago due to encoding, lack of some features etc
This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows.
ill give the short answer to this. millions depend on notepad. a small change , can have devastating effects. What if the editor doesn't respond to the same WM_XYZMESSAGE? what if your enterprise depends on an obscure app that modifies notepad. So no, best option create a new editor, but there are 1000 editors out there. look at sublime text 4.. its pure opengl. fast, and epic done right.
[1] http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notep...
There's another bug... open a file, make a single change (asterisk appears), press Ctrl-Z to undo, asterisk does not disappear.