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Ah yes, trade a small, easily fixed, bug for a life-time of JS induced jank. No thank you.
The parent comment meant it as sarcasm.
Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
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Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
#122This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows.
> This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows. Why? I suppose if your render() function had something like showAstrix = this.state.editorBuffer != this.state.savedBuffer then it wouldn't be subject to the bug, but the performance would be terrible if you're editing a large file. To get good performance you'd need to use a flag and update it accordingly, which will subject you to the s…
Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
#123There's a bug in notepad that lets you turn your computer into a marquee. Making the text big and turning off wordwrap causes the text rendering to lag behind your typing. Here is a demo video I threw together. It's good to have in your pocket for if you're ever bored at fry's or something, that said the update speed is a bit jarring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Y9oeCWeGc
Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
#124Aside 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.
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That's not how VS Code handles it - typing a letter and deleting it does NOT count as a modified file.
Typing a letter and deleting it still counts as a modified file for me with VSCode, unless there's some platform-specific behavior or setting I'm missing. (I tested on Linux.)
Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
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Well, maybe if you're in Arizona, where it lives on as a grocery chain.
I didn't think there was actually any relation...
Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
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Any app that’s installed by default is always used by large numbers of users. Even if not for real text editing, plenty of people use it just as a temporary place to paste copied text to strip the formatting before copy/pasting it somewhere else.
I'm still kinda mad that there's no default shortcut for "paste without formatting" in Word, like CTRL+SHIFT+V in Chrome. It's like one if the most used feature for me in Word.
Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
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Probably because few of the people who are aware of what an asterix in the title bar mean (mostly devs) are still using notepad.
I mean... I use notepad. I frequently use it to clear the non-text formats from the clipboard so when I paste I actually get text. Some apps don't let you pick the paste format and try to be helpful with formatting. Most of the time I don't want that. Win+R is useful for small snippets, but notepad is useful for multiline text. But I don't pay attention to the asterisk, because I just use it as a scratchpad. When I n…
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Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
#130I just found another bug while testing this bug: 1. Open Notepad 2. Type then backspace. (asterisk shows in title bar - arguably a bug here, but ignoring that ...) 3. Open a new text file. Asterisk showing in the title bar (Expected: no asterisk) - Unless you move the mouse over the window (then the asterisk disappears). Windows 10 Enterprise v1909
The behaviour in (2) seems to be pretty standard across editors I've used: Typing a letter and deleting it does count as a modified file; typing a letter and ^Z to undo it does not make the file count as modified.