After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s nice of them. Does it have ads yet?

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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i use notepad to save shitty ascii art in .txt format. if i wanted autocorrect and spellchecking i have like 500 apps i can use.

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• mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Boo, keep is simple and basic.

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• mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ugh… Way to ruin the best IDE on Windows.

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• Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s just me, but I have no desire for autocorrect on the computer. I want the letters I type to be the letters on screen, and I’m perfectly capable of typing words on a full sized keyboard. It makes sense for a phone where the keyboard is small and you can’t feel the keys.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man, I’m dyslexic and a writer, so I thought that autocorrect would be really useful.

    So, there’s an autocorrect available on Linux, and it does work.

    But it is way more of a pain in the ass than a help. With an on screen keyboard, doing swipe typing, I don’t need autocorrect because I have the qwerty layout memorized, and can just make the patterns that make the words, and screwups are rare enough I don’t care. So I keep it off.

    But dealing with it on pc? I really thought it would help, but it’s in the way. It made things harder to process. I make less mistakes that need correcting just typing in my semi-huntnpeck way via keyboard than having the program interfering.

    Like, I’m the perfect use case for autocorrect, and it isn’t worth a damn.

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  • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s an optional feature, so no harm having it.

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  • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are correct. No-one makes mistakes on full size keyboards.

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• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is outrageous, I’m switching to Linux. Arch, in case you were wondering.

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• turbowafflz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have they added syntax highlighting yet? Every time I use it I’m amazed that it’s like the only text editor without syntax highlighting I know about

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  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still amazed that Microsoft Word can’t handle blocks of source code - that’s supposed to be the full-featured one…

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apple’s built-in TextEdit is more fully-featured than Notepad but doesn’t have syntax highlighting.

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• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “It looks like youʼre copying text from a copyrighted source. Would you like me to get a quote from the Microsoft Store for a license?”

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• witty_username@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Luckily I run an old version of notepad under wine

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• Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought they were retiring Wordpad?

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not just system wide yet? What?

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Better late than never, I guess.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does it even have IA?

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  • eerongal@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    no, iowa is not included in notepad.

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