Talk:Windows Notepad

Things to mention in this article:

• when did N first appear?
• when did Microsoft finally add the so-called "standard" keyboard shortcuts to notepad? on my win98, Notepad is the ONLY app which doesn't respond to CTRL-S for save. Shoddy programming, and yet again, Microsoft not following its own rules.

About adding the WINE/ReactOS "Notepad"

As you may or may not know, WINE developed a simple text editor that looks like Notepad. Later, ReactOS took it up and is improving it (though not to over-step boundaries of "notepad replacements") and translating it... (which WINE has later re-merged ReactOS' source, even though they're still not entirely interested in improving an intentionally-limited text editor)

So my real question comes in: Where do we fit in the open source (LGPL) version, if at all? Should there be two tables for the Microsoft one and the WINE/ReactOS one? Should they be together separated by a slash, or should only the Microsoft-created editor be included in the table?

Another Limitation

In addition to limit of a 64K file size, I have found that Notepad craps out (a technical term) at around 1K lines in the file. Has anyone else noticed this limitation? Two Halves, who has happily moved over to the UniRed text editor

Open Source!

Oh my god are people really this against Microsoft that they need to make an open source alternative for Notepad? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.141.186.203 (talk • contribs) 15:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC).

Well, Notepad++ is actually a lot better. Bluemoose444

.LOG

Is it worthwhile putting in the .LOG trick?
Sclozza 09:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Not a bad idea I think. May also wish to mention the undocumented 'feature' described here Jonohill 14:44, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Is it really worthwhile to make note of an ironic bug?Sclozza 04:21, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Yes, I believe it is. This bug causes many other applications to behave in the same manner. -- jsimlo^{(talk, cont)} 08:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

version

What is the latest version of Notepad available? I have 5.1 --Martin925 00:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)