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Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

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Post by gxqoz »

orra wrote: post #75
sn41 wrote: post #40

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).

I believe recovering unsaved files was another somewhat recent feature.

Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

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Post by resoluteteeth »

sn41 wrote: post #40

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.

It's a bug in a new feature they just added a year ago, though. It would be much more impressive if it was a bug that had existed since windows 95.

Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

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Post by bombcar »

zaxomi wrote: post #44
imbusy111 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blows my mind that people actually care about this bug.

Lets see if I can blew you mind even more: Today I found a bug in the editor of the Commodore 64. It has been there for at least 30 years.

Submit this - I'd be interested if nobody found it before or if it's a known issue that nobody's in a position to fix.

Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

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Post by drewzero1 »

JediPig wrote: post #12
gberger wrote: post #8

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.

For a while I did a job where I had need for a text editor but wasn't allowed to install my own programs on my work computer. I tried using Notepad for a bit but switched to Code Writer and found it an acceptable solution. It seemed to me at the time Microsoft was considering that their 'modern' Notepad alternative(?). I haven't seen much about it since though.

Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

#95

Post by drewzero1 »

flixic wrote: post #42
thitcanh wrote: post #37

What a feature to introduce in 2020. This has been a core part of the UI of OS X for… ever? For every app.

macOS is using "dot on top of the Close button", to indicate both that there are unsaved changes, and that if you tried to close the window, you would get a prompt asking about unsaved changes. Simpler, more elegant, better integrated solution, consistent across the whole OS. "Asterisk in the Title Bar" is a very unrefined solution to the problem.

The asterisk (as unsaved indicator) has been there on a lot of Linux programs for a while (the first I remember encountering was GIMP at least a decade ago).

It shows up on the titlebar but more importantly in the window pager/taskbar, which isn't a feature on Mac OS (though to be fair it also doesn't show up on Linux/Windows desktops that are configured to show icons only in the window pager).

Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

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Post by bellyfullofbac »

amingilani wrote: post #70
gberger wrote: post #8

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.

Last week there was an article about how a tool that monitor WhatsApp contacts' online status can be used to stalk. Because I was bored I did a DDG search, and the top result was a Github repo of a Chrome extension that promised such monitoring. The readme was in broken English and hat lots of emojis, it had 500+ commits so I thought "Must be an active developer". Looking through the commits, the majority of them were "Changed readme" with single line changes to the readme file...

Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

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Post by drfuchs »

macromaniac wrote: post #41

There'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

Unhappily, you can’t be at Fry’s anymore, bored or otherwise.

Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

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Post by drfuchs »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #90
abdulhaq wrote: post #83

There's another bug... open a file, make a single change (asterisk appears), press Ctrl-Z to undo, asterisk does not disappear.

Don't most text editors do that though?

Emacs gets it right; the asterisk disappears even if you execute many actions and then multi-undo back to the starting state.

Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

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Post by NullPrefix »

drfuchs wrote: post #98
colejohnson66 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't most text editors do that though?

Emacs gets it right; the asterisk disappears even if you execute many actions and then multi-undo back to the starting state.

Yeah, but Emacs isn't what you call "most text editors"

Re: Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

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Post by mannerheim »

drfuchs wrote: post #97
macromaniac wrote: post #41

There'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

Unhappily, you can’t be at Fry’s anymore, bored or otherwise.

Well, maybe if you're in Arizona, where it lives on as a grocery chain.
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