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Damarus@feddit.org 4 days ago
I’m usually very defensive of Windows. However, a few days ago I wanted to take some notes in Notepad and it kept changing up what I wrote. As this has forever been the most simple text editor imaginable, it took me a good moment to realize, that they implemented auto-correction (which we know is a lie anyways). The ridiculous thing is, nobody but tech people uses Notepad anyways and I can’t imagine that they want these slop features in it. The value of it was the simplicity and that is now lost.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And even then, Notepad++ is so much better than notepad anyway. It has more features and is still a better text editor than notepad ever was.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 days ago
The whole reason I use notepad is because it’s super light on features. Text wrap + find and replace is all I need.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve been using the bookmark line feature a ton recently, and I doubt that would ever hit standard notepad. So much easier to parse massive log files when you can remove anything that does or doesn’t match your search string.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Nor should it ever hit standard notepad, fewer features are the advantage for me, not more. If I need an IDE I use an IDE, if I’m searching log files then grep is the tool.