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Notepad seems like the perfect candidate for open-sourcing. It provides no competitive advantage to Windows. So might as well have the OSS community improve it.
by pradn 8y ago
Notepad seems like the perfect candidate for open-sourcing. It provides no competitive advantage to Windows. So might as well have the OSS community improve it. It's possible it might be too hard to remove it from the Windows code base and put it online.
- userbinator 8y agoNotepad is literally just the Windows EDIT control with some trivial code to transfer the data in it to/from files, and a menu to change some of the edit control's options. I don't think it needs much improvement, really. Anything besides fixing bugs in its own code (i.e. this "extended line endings support" is in the edit control) would go against its core principle. There's Notepad++ and all the other "heavier" editors if you want more features.