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Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

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Re: Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

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Post by hvgk »

racl101 wrote: post #89
pantaloons wrote: post #58

I worked on Windows back in 2014, probably the most surprising thing joining there out of college was looking through the bug database. Every issue that gets complained about online -- and many more -- are in there, and have been for a long time, marked WONTFIX due to a potential compatibility break, lack of priority, or some other policy reason. I don't know if anyone even owned Notepad or any other older inbox apps…

I imagine then at least 80% of Excel's bug tracker must have WONTFIX as a designation, cause I tell you, the same fucking bugs seem to come with every release.

I think if they fix them the global finance sector will crash overnight.

Re: Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

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Post by hvgk »

valenaut wrote: post #82
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notepad is core OS functionality? I think not.

For Windows I would say it is. Windows doesn't come with vi, nano, or any other terminal text editor, and some kind of text editor is needed for pretty much anything you would do with a computer.

Err but powershell ISE ships with it.

Re: Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

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Post by lousken »

I thought the reason for putting apps into windows store was to make them easily upgradable across versions of windows.

It is here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-notepad/9msmlrh6lz... so where did that go and why it is not updated on Windows 10? Why is this exclusive to crappy windows 11?

Re: Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

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Post by wolverine876 »

sz4kerto wrote: post #63
miles wrote: post #48

> We know how important Notepad is to so many of your daily workflows… Perhaps the single funniest line ever penned by Microsoft. Cannot imagine any “Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel” who use, let alone rely on, Notepad for any serious work. EDIT: I stand corrected - mea culpa!

I use it all the time as a temporary scratchpad or clipboard. It opens very quickly, it doesn’t have anything else other than a text area. Not sure what else should I use :) VSC? Opens too slow. Sticky notes? Not sure, slow and too complex for the task. Also it’s an advantage that it doesn’t save the state anywhere so I can just force quit and everything disappears. I am missing Paint and Notepad on MacOS when I just…

Tie any text editor to a hotkey.

Re: Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

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Post by vq »

hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #29
vq wrote: post #12

"Productivity, performance, and reliability are paramount in Notepad. Regardless of how you incorporate Notepad into your workflows, we will ensure that Notepad continues to excel in those areas." Is this from Microsoft? Is this real?

I don't know why you are being downvoted. I used to use Notepad years ago as it's practically guaranteed to exist on every Windows machine. I can't say much about productivity, but performance was abysmal for larger files. As for reliability, the main reason I never use Notepad now, even for most trivial things, is that Notepad++ will always bring my session back, with all open tabs, regardless of whether I saved the…

I'm sure the editor is fine for a basic editor that comes with the desktop environment, it looks functional enough, but the language in that article is just weird to me. It reads like some kind of prank.

Re: Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

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Post by selfhoster11 »

Bjartr wrote: post #5

I understand it's reasonable to be cynical about Windows, but is it really appropriate here[1] when the changes of note are support for dark mode and multiple undo steps? At least wait for someone to find an actual problem. [1] When I post this, the only other comments are complaints. The ones that are at least complaining about notepad are complaining that MS had the gall to change notepad without pointing to anythi…

Notepad had a dark mode (and light mode, and grey mode, and "eye-searing yellow with purple font" mode, if you want) as recently as Windows 7 with the system-wide theme settings, so it's understandable to be sceptical when they bring the dark mode as some sort of a triumph when it's a regression.

Re: Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

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Post by nashashmi »

hvgk wrote: post #131
racl101 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine then at least 80% of Excel's bug tracker must have WONTFIX as a designation, cause I tell you, the same fucking bugs seem to come with every release.

I think if they fix them the global finance sector will crash overnight.

Like when zoom causes text lengths to appear inconsistently?

Or when page resize based on different printers breaks page appearances?

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