Re:Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
by simonh on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:23AM
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A decent text editor doesn't mean VS Code, or anything like that complicated. Just something not as teeth grindingly sucky as Notepad. It wouldn't even have to be all that much better. An 'advanced mode' in the same way that calculator has a scientific mode might be nice as an extra. To be fair Notepad is gradually improving, but this has been an issue for literally decades.
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Re:Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
by jotm on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:39AM
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You seem to be describing WordPad, tbf.
Notepad looks exactly the same as the one in Windows XP :D
Re:Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
by WorldMaker on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:58PM
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Notepad may look the same, but it has seen some small feature updates in Windows 10. The biggest: it finally understands Unix-style line feed only (\n) files.
Re:Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
by simonh on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:55AM
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That’s why I said this has been an issue for decades.
Re:Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
by pwinnski on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @12:10PM
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Multiple people have mentioned it, and you're not responding to it: There is WordPad, separate from Notepad, that seems to be what you're looking for.
Re:Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
by simonh on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:15PM
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Wordpad is a completely different thing, it’s a basic word processor. I’d be quite happy with a slightly better text editor, though as I pointed out Notepad has improved recently and isn’t far off a reasonable set of basic features.
Re:Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
by macspoofing on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @12:24PM
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Have you ever used WordPad? WordPad is a lightweight "word processor" not a text editor. It is not really an option.