It’s still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.
Who tf asked for this
Seems like they’re taking everything good about Notepad and flushing it down the toilet.
Sometimes you just need a dumb, text editor you don’t have to fight to do what you need. e.g. if I’m editing a config file, I don’t want my text editor’s spellcheck or autocorrect fighting me.
But tabs were a great addon. Also, it can finally handle linux line endings (\n). Thats the two things I miss when using old versions of notepad.
But a spell checker? Why?!
Why?!
It’s an opportunity to monitor the contents of the file, and your keystrokes.
also killing wordpad and putting features from that to notepad means one less program to maintain, less expenses
How does the math work out on that? Both are fairly mature, I don’t believe that either application takes a considerable amount of development effort to maintain. And taking features from Wordpad and putting them into Notepad has a time and effort cost.
That carriage return that Windows sneaks in there has been the source of a lot of file-parsing problems for me when I forgot to catch that in my programs, because I develop on Linux and I’m not expecting it.
Different OSes using different line endings is such a long standing and well known problem that I would only describe the bugs that come as a result as bad programming. Not even lazy programming, a lazy programmer uses a library that abstracts away these differences.
I program embedded devices. There’s not often just a ready to go library for what you want to do when you’re doing bare metal. You’re given a C compiler with the bare minimums, and that’s it. You’re expected to mostly build what you need by yourself. That includes file-parsing routines. A microcontroller doesn’t even have any idea what a filesystem is unless you build one. I gotta do all that myself with an SD card through low level SPI stuff.
On general purpose OSes, yes, you have a plethora of frameworks and libraries to choose from. In this world, the cool stuff, like C++ Boost libraries for example, doesn’t exist.
Just. Use. Notepad++. K. Bye.
Microsoft:
Gets rid of Wordpad.
Turns Notepad into Wordpad.Wordpad was getting no usage. They offer Word for free as a web app and PWA if you want it.
It’s ok to retire a product that has no reason to exist and focus on a single app like notepad.
Notepad was getting usage, even if Word was installed, specifically because Notepad doesn’t have all the bullshit needed for a word processor. It is a text editor. It is for editing text files. Text files that probably contain machine-readable program configuration data with arguments that are now going to be flagged by spellcheck, and probably changed by autocorrect from the term the program is expecting to something that it can’t understand.
The people who use notepad need it to not have these “features”. These “features” make wordpad less useful for the people who use it.
Let’s be honest, after Microsoft fired everyone that knew how to maintain Windows they only have interns and the windows phone team left to maintain it…
Lets be honest, MS does not know how to maintain windows or any of their programs since Win95. That’s way every product they sell is just a wrapped and over GUIed version of an old piece of software.
Dang you’re angry enough to make things up.
I have noticed slight improvements to Windows core suite of apps. Explorer and Notepad have tabs, Paint has layers, and the “power toy” called ‘run’ is the best launcher on any platform I’ve tried (and I’ve tried a bunch).
Seems like M$ is trying to meaningfully update it’s core software recognizing that what features are “basic” has changed. Seeing as how this is just added functionality with no proximate adds or other shifificatiton, we should be glad.
Explorer tabs is seriously one of the best improvements they’ve made to Windows in years.
