Now Windows’ only built-in text editor, there’s more room for Notepad to grow.
wordpad gets kicked to the curb because microsoft thinks they can sell a few more office subscriptions if the most basic of word processors wasn’t included with windows.
meanwhile. notepad, the basic text editor that lacks even the basic formatting features found in wordpad, gets the spellchecker users have wanted in wordpad since windows write for windows 1.0
I suspect it was more likely that nobody used wordpad because, well, why would you? So supporting it is more pain than it’s worth.
I don’t think the wordpad to office pipeline represents quite the cashflow you’re implying
wordpad has always been gimped to keep it from taking any sales away from word. if microsoft wasn’t worried about wordpad, they would have tossed a spellchecker into it back in the 1990s (when wordpad replaced write) and it would, ya know… still exist (in upcoming versions of windows).
Now do support for Notepad++ plugins and language linting 😁😎😂
VsNotepad
The circle of life. I started in notepad and by god that’s how I’ll end.
Doesn’t that just become np++ then?
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You’ll never be the Kate Text Editor! MS just likes to copy others.
hahahahahahahah i love this
Did you just applaud your own post?
What’s wrong with commenting on your own post?
It’s my post, but I didn’t write the article, and I wanted to comment on it. lol, are you developmentally challenged?
Hey now. There’s no need to be a shitty, ableist asshole.
you know what microsoft? just turn notepad into an editplus like environment and id be happy
For anyone wondering why their notepad doesn’t have this, it’s only available for windows 11
TIL there is vim for Windows.
…and neovim. For a more IDE-like environment there’s also LunarVim.
scoop install vim
scoop install nano
Protip: Cudatext is open source, portable, and cross-platform
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Whatever else you can say about Windows 11—and whatever you think about its pushy tendencies and the Copilot feature that has been rolled out to pretty much everyone despite being labeled a “preview”—the operating system has ushered in a bit of a renaissance for decades-old built-in apps like Paint and Notepad.
An updated version of Notepad currently rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels is adding two more modern features to the old app: spellcheck and autocorrect.
Per usual, spellcheck in Notepad highlights misspellings with red squiggly underlines, and right-clicking the word or pressing Shift + F10 will pop up a short menu of suggested fixes.
If you’re upgrading from the Windows 10 version of Notepad, the spellcheck and autocorrect features join the tabbed interface, redesigned Settings screen, an auto-resume feature, and a handful of other tricks that the app has learned throughout Windows 11’s development.
Unlike Notepad, WordPad had been mostly left alone since a Windows 7-era refresh that added a user interface ribbon like the one in the (then-current) Office 2007 update.
Updates to Notepad and other apps could roll out before then, though, in keeping with Microsoft’s “release them when they’re ready” approach to feature additions in the Windows 11 era.
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