Discussion Why is Windows Notepad getting 'active development'?

[MadRat]

OneNote is useful mainly for snipping an image containing graphical text and using "copy text from image".

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I've forgotten, but how did we edit basic ASCII "TXT" files in MS-DOS and before Windows was introduced with Notepad?

I've always used Notepad for such a purpose, but also use it to make quick notes that can be transferred into other programs -- Wordpad, Excel, Word. I keep a notepad window open on my system so I can paste text draft to and from, paste or type in a phone number I need to remember or put somewhere else -- or just create and print out a grocery shopping list.

The fact that I've forgotten what was commonplace knowledge 40 years ago -- that also has me worried.

I MUST start belated building of a "new" Intel system with Windows 11. The last time I did this was four years ago in 2022. I'm using systems just old enough to need "special attention" installing Windows 11 or -- occasionally but not so far -- the Feature Updates.

But I cannot fathom why MS -- in imagining the thoughts and understanding of "Mainstreamers" clueless to the way we did things decades prior -- are going to screw up any new incarnation of Notepad.

 

[sdifox]

I've forgotten, but how did we edit basic ASCII "TXT" files in MS-DOS and before Windows was introduced with Notepad?

I've always used Notepad for such a purpose, but also use it to make quick notes that can be transferred into other programs -- Wordpad, Excel, Word. I keep a notepad window open on my system so I can paste text draft to and from, paste or type in a phone number I need to remember or put somewhere else -- or just create and print out a grocery shopping list.

The fact that I've forgotten what was commonplace knowledge 40 years ago -- that also has me worried.

I MUST start belated building of a "new" Intel system with Windows 11. The last time I did this was four years ago in 2022. I'm using systems just old enough to need "special attention" installing Windows 11 or -- occasionally but not so far -- the Feature Updates.

But I cannot fathom why MS -- in imagining the thoughts and understanding of "Mainstreamers" clueless to the way we did things decades prior -- are going to screw up any new incarnation of Notepad.

in DOS it was EDIT.com

 

[BonzaiDuck]

in DOS it was EDIT.com

I vaguely remember, but it's troubling -- I was an ace at working with MS-DOS. Of course that became unnecessary after migrating to Windows 3.0.

That was more than 33 years ago, wasn't it?! As a person gets older, time seems to "accelerate". It's scary.

 

[sdifox]

I vaguely remember, but it's troubling -- I was an ace at working with MS-DOS. Of course that became unnecessary after migrating to Windows 3.0.

That was more than 33 years ago, wasn't it?! As a person gets older, time seems to "accelerate". It's scary.

There was also edlin, line editor. Edit is now available in W11 as well.