alt Hacker NewsPlease show me the few sentence prompt to create a windows 10 level notepad.exe clone that I can quickly open and use by hitting win+r
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5o1ecist • yesterday at 7:17 PM
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Tested with python 3.10.6, Windows. It's the only version I have installed, for which I've also have installed tkinter.
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I think Dave (of Dave's Garage) did this just a few months ago... I think there were some short-comings regarding wide character support (BoM detection, etc)... but it was pretty much a working Notepad.exe implementation.
FWIW, you can also get the new Edit implementation that's built with Rust and the Windows exe is 250kb...