Notepad has been updated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[a_unique_person]

Breaking news today. Notepad has been updated.


You can now ..
Open a new window without having to do anything to the old one.
Setup a page for printing.
Zoom in and out.
Search with Bing
Paste the time and date
Change the font
Goto a line number.
Wrap around search.


Goodness gracious me.

This has all probably been out for a long time and I am just so used to the thing that has not changed in 20 years that I never noticed.

 

[jadebox]

Microsoft will make one more update that makes Notepad too complicated and too slow for use as a quick way to view and edit a text file.

 

[plague311]

Breaking news today. Notepad has been updated.


You can now ..
Open a new window without having to do anything to the old one.
Setup a page for printing.
Zoom in and out.
Search with Bing
Paste the time and date
Change the font
Goto a line number.
Wrap around search.


Goodness gracious me.

This has all probably been out for a long time and I am just so used to the thing that has not changed in 20 years that I never noticed.

Notepad++ has been around for awhile, which replaced notepad for me. If you like notepad take a gander at the other. It might suit your needs better as well.

 

[a_unique_person]

notepad is quicker to start and notepad++ usually isn't available in SOE environments. I do use it for advanced editing.

 

[novaphile]

notepad is quicker to start and notepad++ usually isn't available in SOE environments. I do use it for advanced editing.

Note that you can run Notepad++ in portable mode, i.e. without installing it on a computer.

 

[eerok]

Notepad++ +1

 

[a_unique_person]

Note that you can run Notepad++ in portable mode, i.e. without installing it on a computer.

Not allowed to do that.

 

[erlando]

"You can do that with non-standard, 3rd party software"

*Looks at locked-down production environment server*

 

[CORed]

Microsoft will make one more update that makes Notepad too complicated and too slow for use as a quick way to view and edit a text file.

And leave it as the default association for ".txt" files, of course.

 

[Dude111]

I have had notepad2 for years

www.flos-freeware.ch

 

[arthwollipot]

notepad is quicker to start and notepad++ usually isn't available in SOE environments. I do use it for advanced editing.

Our SOE makes Notepad++ available with approval.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I've been using Notepad--.

 

[eerok]

If we're doing confessions now, I've been using Emacs.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

If we're doing confessions now, I've been using Emacs.

Anyone remember Godot?

 

[arthwollipot]

Anyone remember Godot?

I've been waiting for it for ages.

 

[eerok]

Anyone remember Godot?

The game engine?

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

The game engine?

From a bit-o-Googling I gather this may be the same thing but I knew it as a text editor on Unix 7 in the early 1970s.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I've been waiting for it for ages.

That's why we all called it Go Dot. At least most of the time.

 

[eerok]

From a bit-o-Googling I gather this may be the same thing but I knew it as a text editor on Unix 7 in the early 1970s.

I never heard of that, but I didn't use Unix 7 until the late 70s. I remember a line editor that was just invoked by "e", which I used to type my first C code. You must've had something fancy.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I never heard of that, but I didn't use Unix 7 until the late 70s. I remember a line editor that was just invoked by "e", which I used to type my first C code. You must've had something fancy.

I thought about the date after I posted. It was 1978 or thereabouts. We actually had it on a PDP 11/45 running the prior version of UNIX that was, ISTR, Version III.