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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. Re:It's about damn time! by sexconker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Dunno what took so long, but I love both this and the line number / character count with word wrap enabled.

  2. Bury it by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How is this even a news on ./ front page?

    A modern minimalistic graphical text editor should be able to:

    • Support color schemes or at least allow to edit background/text colors.
    • Have syntax highlighting for major formats like HTML, XML, JS, JSON, INI.
    • Show line numbers (in a separate column).
    • Have infinite number of undo's/redo's.
    • Allow to configure Tab size and behaviour (real tabs or spaces).
    • Have a tabbed interface.
    • Find and replace (case sensitive or not) in either the current open file, or selection or all open files.
    • Safely edit files: e.g. you add and remove just one symbol and nothing else in the file changes, including its size - Notepad often doesn't work like that.

    Now what about this new Notepad?

  3. Re:No one cares... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "All the telemetry collected by Windows is telling them there's an application that they haven't properly monetized"
    Can you, or anyone for that matter, back up this declaration? People are constantly making statements such as this with absolutely no proof. Telemetry is not all bad. And MS has publicly stated that any telemetry data they may collect is anonymized and nobody has ever proved that statement false. I know accusations have replaced facts and reason in today's fractious and increasingly belligerent society but unlike the political and societal malcontents technology can be studied and pulled apart to either prove or disprove any accusation. Until people realize that opinions and unsubstantiated accusations are just speeding up the decline of western society we are well and truly fucked. People born today are facing a future where arguing over global warming, LGBT rights, illegal immigration, and government surveillance will seem silly.