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Notepad had one job. Operate on a damn text file. Operate on the damn text files I choose.
I knew it was going down the drain when I reopened Notepad and it opened the files that were previously open. No. Don't do that. That's overly helpful. You were only supposed to operate on the damn files I chose. These files I'm about to work with aren't necessarily the files I previously worked on. If I want this functionality I might as well open it in vscode.
I'm, like, screw it, might as well keep Emacs running if I need random temporary text editing.
Personally I find that feature (including tabs in general) very helpful and is something i'd expect from a text editor in the 20th century.
Just my opinion. To each their own, but just wanted to share that it might also be many others' opinion too.
Meh, sounds like a worse version of notepad++, which has been very popular and reliable since the early 21st century.
If they make notepad more bloated than notepad++ then I'd use it even less.
But each to their own.
See I'd use Notepad++ if I was coding or doing any kind of actual file editing.
However, when I'm at work and need to take a phone call, the tabs in Notepad and the auto saving are literally game changing for me.
That being said I haven't bothered with the AI stuff in it at all, and it feels as usual, Microsoft doesn't stop when they have a Good Thing already, they keep pushing it beyond that point for their interests. And now we're left with not a basic editor but a personal assistant.
Long live Linux and freedom of choice.
But that is literally what I use notepad++ for: tabs, keeping unsaved files (good for temporary things like reminders) and also because I swear it opens faster than notepad.
I like how the tabs save when I close notepad. Its super helpful when I just need to jot down some quick notes or a serial number or something.
And I'm really dumb so I often close my notepad window before I'm done and this feature has saved me numerous times.
I don't have copilot in my notepad tho. Which is good.
In the 20th century I'd expect something that can open, edit and save plaintext files. But we're 1/4th of the way into the 21st century.
I find I have two uses for a plaintext editor: plaintext, and computer script. I don't like using rich text editors like Word for writing notes and such because the formatting options just get in the way; plaintext lets me "just write." And for this, there's very little automation that will be helpful.
In the Linux ecosystem, plaintext editors are all trying so hard to be IDEs. They'll close parentheses or quotes or whatever for you, and if you're doing something like 15" to mean fifteen inches you'll get two, you'll hit backspace and it'll take both away...it doesn't help.
If I'm programming anything of any size I'm going to open an IDE, probably because I'm working within some ecosystem. If I'm writing a couple lines of Bash I'll probably use Vim. So I'd rather tune my plaintext editor to write actual .txt files, as prose.
3rd use perhaps being syntax recognition?
That would fall under "computer script."
I am either:
- Writing in plain human English, in which case I need a PLAIN TEXT editor. Maybe I want spell check and stuff like that in it.
- Writing computer code, for which I'll use a code editor or IDE. Maybe I want syntax highlighting and bracket closing and auto indent here.
Gotta agree here with you. Yeah theoretically maybe someone really just needs a text editor with absolutely no additional convenient features (maybe the older versions of Notepad allowing different fonts and word wrap was too much for someone as well?). But this is such an objective improvement in 95% of usecases it's kind of ridiculous to complain about it.
I think I’d be able to agree with you if new notepad didn’t take a noticeable time to load. It used to be the 2nd fastest thing I could launch, after the Run dialog itself.
I hate it when my technology tries to be smart. Be predictable, you piece of junk. I dont need my laptop to sleep when I shut the lid because all that foes is stop it from shutting down. And opening it doesnt need to turn it on ffs. I blame company policy.
I miss when things were simple, predictable, and you could simply work around them.
VSCode: We already have an IDE.
Windows: But what about second IDE?