The Support Arth in this difficult time thread

[a_unique_person]

Windows Notepad now has text formatting, tabs and numerous other word processing features added.

I know Arth has been a super fan of Notepad's totally minimalist feature set.

He may need your help to get over this abomination. Even I was annoyed when the bloat first hit.

https://share.google/Q1Q6bTRx1BGjWz2DN

 

[Ron Obvious]

Windows Notepad now has text formatting, tabs and numerous other word processing features added.

I know Arth has been a super fan of Notepad's totally minimalist feature set.

He may need your help to get over this abomination. Even I was annoyed when the bloat first hit.

https://share.google/Q1Q6bTRx1BGjWz2DN

Ugh! I agree with Arth on this one, and I may even go back to using command-line M(EP) for basic text editing. I prefer command-line for most things anyway.

On edit: Or even VI.

 

[arthwollipot]

Notepad still isn't bad. It's got a few quality-of-life features. I'm not too impressed to see Copilot up there, though.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Ah, I see Microsoft has probably stolen acquired someone else's perfectly good Notepad-Plus product and wrapped it into Windows.

 

[a_unique_person]

It's got my account up in the top right hand corner. That's just outright bad.

 

[Blue Mountain]

I was going to suggest Notepad++, but when I went to check its current version, the site notepad-plus-plus.org had disappeared. This may be temporary.

 

[junkshop]

I was going to suggest Notepad++, but when I went to check its current version, the site notepad-plus-plus.org had disappeared. This may be temporary.

Seems to be fine now: link

 

[arthwollipot]

It's got my account up in the top right hand corner. That's just outright bad.

It's Microsoft. Everything has your account in the top right corner. Everything.

 

[a_unique_person]

Not notepad. That's just unconsionable. Not even Bill Gates would have done that.

 

[Wudang]

Those poor help desk staff.

 

[arthwollipot]

Not notepad. That's just unconsionable. Not even Bill Gates would have done that.

Does it diminish the utility of the application at all?

 

[catsmate]

I was going to suggest Notepad++, but when I went to check its current version, the site notepad-plus-plus.org had disappeared. This may be temporary.

This one?

Notepad++

notepad-plus-plus.org

It seems fine now.

 

[catsmate]

Anyway, bring back edlin. Though it's actually still there IIRR.

 

[catsmate]

Those poor help desk staff.

True story. When I was working at MS I was at the meeting where GORILLA.BAS and the other QBasic support files were consigned to the bin of history.

 

[Blue Mountain]

This one?

Notepad++

notepad-plus-plus.org

It seems fine now.

Excellent! Looks like a temporary error in name resolution.

 

[catsmate]

Excellent! Looks like a temporary error in name resolution.

Personally I'm surprised the lash together that is DNS actually works.

 

[theprestige]

The world is a vampire.

 

[Wudang]

I was comfortable with DNS until a colleague started working on a system to determine if services were running on their primary or backup servers based on DNS queries. Very quickly from "It just works" to "How the hell does that ever work?"