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.
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.
So turn those features off. I just checked, there’s a setting for both spellcheck and autocorrect.
Lots of us use notepad on hundreds of different machines, many times freshly installed. “just turn it off” is not a solution as that increases the unnecessary burden beyond the utility of the application.
A bigger sin of new Notepad is that its no longer ephemeral when not saving the file. This is really bad if you happen to copy secure data into notepad for brief evaluation or manipulation. It now gets saved unencrypted to the file system in a temporary file whether you want it or not.
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?!
It’s an opportunity to monitor the contents of the file, and your keystrokes.
Maybe add some forced integration with onedrive then?
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.
Isn’t that a long time habit?
Lol, yeah, but with notepad it’s an extra helping of how dare they?
The article says it’s off by default for (iirc) config files and ‘other files associated with coding’
Still, not really a place I want spellcheck
So turn those features off. I just checked, there’s a setting for both spellcheck and autocorrect.
Lots of us use notepad on hundreds of different machines, many times freshly installed. “just turn it off” is not a solution as that increases the unnecessary burden beyond the utility of the application.
A bigger sin of new Notepad is that its no longer ephemeral when not saving the file. This is really bad if you happen to copy secure data into notepad for brief evaluation or manipulation. It now gets saved unencrypted to the file system in a temporary file whether you want it or not.
Or just use wordpad instead of turning notepad into wordpad?
There’s a reason we opened notepad and it wordpad. Adding features and bloat to notepad removes that.