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Notepad is heavily used as an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) by a lot of people. It’s not exactly a good development environment but it is nonetheless. I would actually argue Notepad is used primarily by programmers, and that casual Windows Notepad users are in the extreme minority. The whole reason it’s so heavily used is because unlike WordPad or Word, it doesn’t include formatting data, which can fuck up computer code.
Notepad++ for example is literally built to be more like an actual IDE and supports color-schemes and indentations for numerous computer programming languages.
Microsoft isn’t entirely stupid (just mostly), and in knowing this, they’re pushing to put their programming Copilot where they think it needs to be: Inside IDEs, which to them includes Notepad.
Notepad++ may very well be widely used as an IDE. Notepad isn’t. Other than the name they have nothing do do with each other. It’s just a plain text editor with absolutely no features. Maybe some people use it to write code but unless you can’t use anything else, even a web browser, why would you.
Thank God I switched to Linux. Windows 11 is a glimpse of what’s coming in Windows 12.
Which text editor do you use?
Notepad is supposed to be the simplest most basic way to view a text file in Windows.
Yet if I have a large text file (like a log), it’s usually faster for me to just fire up WSL and use
less. How is this still a fucking problem?And that’s why I use Notepad++! …at least until AI ends up there
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Notepad by itself is pretty bare bones. It does have a “Search with Bing” selection in the Edit menu though, which I find odd.
It does have a “Search with Bing” selection in the Edit menu though
What the literal fuck? When was it added?
No idea, it wasn’t always there though. Notepad hasn’t changed much over the years but that was definitely an addition.
I replaced Notepad with Obsidian.
Wait, would the average user even need an AI feature baked DIRECTLY into their notepad?
I don’t think so.
Why not? If anything the average user that will write stuff for themselves so no worry of plagiarism or whatever would benefit the most if it auto guesses what they want to type, summarizes to study something or similar.
It probably makes more sense on Word though.
It’s good i left bill gayts’ sinking boat recently Feeling really great running my nixos flake on my surface go (this was the last device, everything else migrated a long time ago)
