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BLKNSLVRtoday at 1:27 PM3 repliesview on HN

Notepad had been perfect for 20 years. Morons fucked with it.


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whynotmaybetoday at 3:31 PM

I used notepad for quick edit of simple files OR copy pasting and removing formatting.

Copilot excluded, who decided that it was a good idea to have multi tab notepad that remembers unsaved files between executions ?

"We solved that, just go into settings to toggle that behaviour !"

Who decided that notepad had to have a full settings page ?

"Just use the feedback hub" ?

So basically, you removed Wordpad and now regret this decision and are slowly turning notepad into Jeff Raskins' Archy ?

fredoralivetoday at 1:43 PM

You probably wouldn’t like 20 year old Notepad’s habit of leaving Unicode BOMs everywhere, or only supporting CRLF line endings. They did improve it a tiny amount circa Windows 10.

Does Windows 11 Notepad still choke on loading large files?

henriquecm8today at 2:21 PM

I actually liked some of the addictions to notepad, like tabs, reopen files, keeping unsaved files, and the unsaved changes indicator in the tab.

But I think formatting, grammar and ai are going too far for notepad, if I want to do something that need those I would use Word.