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Microsoft is Updating Windows Notepad Application For the First Time in Years (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the about-time dept.

Microsoft is giving its Notepad app for Windows a surprising amount of new features. From a report: You'll soon be able to do wrap around find and replace alongside the ability to zoom into text by holding down the ctrl key and using the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Microsoft is also adding in extended line ending support so that Unix/Linux line endings (LF) and Macintosh line endings (CR) are supported in Notepad. The status bar will now be enabled by default in Notepad, and it includes the ability to display line and column numbers when word-wrap is enabled.

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  1. Zooming into the future by AlexanKulbashian · · Score: 5, Funny

    jumping from 1991 to 2002 in a single version update

  2. It's about time! by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did this happen during the last administration? I don't think so. Now that the Notepad Tax has been reduced, this is exactly the sort of reinvestment we should expect.

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  3. Re:Macintosh Line Endings? by Provocateur · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me use a quote from the late Phil Hartman from SNL

    Oh but hey, I'm just a caveman, been frozen for almost a thousand years, and just been all thawed out.

    Notepad has plugins now??

    Thank you, I'll be here all week.

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  4. Re: Side effect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And after the trial period ends, you need a Notepad 365 subscription, for $2.95 per month, which includes a cloud drive with 640k of space.

  5. Re:Notepad++ by EndlessNameless · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would imagine that my PC would weigh just the same no matter what version of Notepad I was using.

    Well, that depends on how many 1s are in their binaries. Everybody knows it's the 1s that add weight.

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