I know your deeds, that you are neither notepad nor word. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm - neither notepad nor word - I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
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Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the contrary, the difference is precisely that an abandoned FOSS program can be picked up by someone else; that this ability is not always used is beside the point.
Not always is a misnomer. It rarely if ever is. Anyone remember PhantomJS? It took years before a replacement emerged and nobody was willing to take in the project, and this was a critical piece of tech at the time
> It rarely if ever is.
You can always pay someone to maintain it. Not every thing has to be free.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#163Microsoft is slowly removing features, but is it adding any notable features?
Here are some examples of features I would like to see:
- Native Markdown viewer and editor, to replace Wordpad
- Disk space manager - graphically show where my diskspace went; allow me to find and delete large files
- Restartable and reliable file copy (similar to rsync on Linux)
- Notepad with same features as textarea element in browser, including spellcheck, multilevel undo/redo, completion, etc.
- Printing that can stay connected to printers on my local network
- Dictionary app (MacOS has it)
- Air drop compatible with iPhone
- A screenshot tool that allows you to type text (in addition to circling and highlighting and arrows)
- No system processes that randomly consume high CPU
- Command-line zip
- Instant search (Mac has had it for how many years now?)
- Stock app (MacOS has it)
- Beautiful widgets (like the old Konfabulator) https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/06/konfabulator/
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#164Microsoft is slowly removing features, but is it adding any notable features? Here are some examples of features I would like to see: - Native Markdown viewer and editor, to replace Wordpad - Disk space manager - graphically show where my diskspace went; allow me to find and delete large files - Restartable and reliable file copy (similar to rsync on Linux) - Notepad with same features as textarea element in browser,…
> - Command-line zip
Does https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof... do the trick?
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#165Off topic, but I'm loving the Mac equivalent, TextEdit. After trying every kind of fancy task management and note taking system from org-mode to Obsidian to Logseq, I now use a .rtfd (.rtf + images) on iCloud to act as a note-taking system / todo-list. I would have used pen and paper but I need to paste screenshots and URLs. There's an iOS app called RTF Write for 99c. Now I always have my notes, tasks, and shopping,…
I remember reading that the TextEdit.app is very simple as the basic widget the OS provides is fully featured with all the functionality.
Yeah, the Cocoa text input system is very full-featured and TextEdit.app is basically a demo of it the way WordPad demoed the windows rich text editing component
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#166Microsoft is slowly removing features, but is it adding any notable features? Here are some examples of features I would like to see: - Native Markdown viewer and editor, to replace Wordpad - Disk space manager - graphically show where my diskspace went; allow me to find and delete large files - Restartable and reliable file copy (similar to rsync on Linux) - Notepad with same features as textarea element in browser,…
For me the "canary in the coal mine" for when Microsoft actually starts caring about the user experience is when the taskbar dynamically expands and contracts with the number of open windows.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#167This is deeply unfortunate. WordPad is by far the best implementation of RTF anywhere.
But who uses RTF? I can't recall ever receiving an RTF file. Scanning my drives, I've only found a single Readme RTF file in some old Windows utilities.
Back in the day I worked on a desktop shell for senior accessibilty in .net (pointerware) & was tasked with creating a word processor. Went with richtextedit control to do most the heavy lifting, & included being able to forward rtf via email which would convert subset of rtf editor exposed to html
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#168One interesting thing about WordPad (at least from the Windows XP / 7 era) was that it supported the complete OLE2 / ActiveX stack. This let you do all kinds of things like embed other types of controls (like canvases or images from Paint, or Excel tables) inside your document, and WordPad's UI would jump through all the hoops to update and transform into the embedded application's UI when that control gained focus.…
if only the OLE stack wasn't riddled with malware (think those activex toolbar addons you could download for IE), it would've been a great idea!
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#169I must be the only one who didn't know what a WordPad was before reading about it being removed on here.
What do you use it for? I can't remember the last time I had to edit a text document that wasn't either pure text (like markdown), a pdf, or an office file. Some people mentioned ".rtf" files in this thread, but I don't believe I've ever heard of one of those being used for anything.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#170Microsoft is slowly removing features, but is it adding any notable features? Here are some examples of features I would like to see: - Native Markdown viewer and editor, to replace Wordpad - Disk space manager - graphically show where my diskspace went; allow me to find and delete large files - Restartable and reliable file copy (similar to rsync on Linux) - Notepad with same features as textarea element in browser,…
> - Command-line zip Does https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof... do the trick?
Only if you don't need to create ZIPs over 2GB.