Microsoft is updating Notepad

Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by Endy on Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:39PM (#17518851)

I'll skip it thanks. Notepad, and EDIT.COM, work well for what they're meant to do - be basic text editors on the Windows/MS-DOS platform.

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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by sli on Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:49PM (#17518912)

The new version just supports a few new features, like non-Windows line endings. It's otherwise exactly the same simple text editor it always was, except now it's not useless when you happen to get something with Unix line endings.

If you want to talk about them adding a bunch of user tracking features to it, you may have a proper complaint.

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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by Endy on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:14PM (#17519646)

I mean, I respect that concept; but just for my lifestyle, if someone is sending me .txt files with non-DOS/Windows line-endings, I'm talking to the wrong people.

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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by muxator on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:41AM (#17520953)

edit.com was amazing for its time! Super intuitive UI, drop down menus,"natural" (for a windows user) text selection via shift-arrows... All of this in pure text, in a console, a gazillion years ago...

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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by Endy on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:11PM (#17527284)

It still works for basic notetaking and prewriting in Win7 - both native and (even better) in DOSBox.

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