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"You can now even search for words on Bing through Notepad by simply right clicking on them to get a new option" That's what the world waited for... I am curio

by Rondom 8y ago

"You can now even search for words on Bing through Notepad by simply right clicking on them to get a new option" That's what the world waited for... I am curious about the politics involved in the prioritization of this feature...

phyzome 8y ago
Great! I've always wanted to accidentally send my password to a search engine.
OskarS 8y ago
I dunno, that doesn't sound like a crazy feature. The purpose of Notepad is many times to look through gigantic log files. When you find the error, you can just select it and then Bing it.
- makapuf 8y ago
  Sure even if your chosen search engine is ddg or gg on firefox (i guess it opens edge maybe) . No politics here. The purpose of notepad is to edit text with no frills. I would have liked better something like unicode encoding selection, minimap or invisible character toggling. Or even better searches options for anyone (regex could be a bit too far..)
- kalleboo 8y ago
  As a Mac user it seems crazy that it's an app feature. On the Mac, any app using the system text field automatically gets features like that (spellcheck, dictionary, google, text-to-speech, etc), and as I understand it, Notepad is just a basic wrapper around the Windows text control (hence the 32K limit etc)
  - harrygeez 8y ago
    That's the difference. Apple had an actual opportunity to restart from scratch and design it right but Microsoft never did
- Grue3 8y ago
  IIRC Notepad won't even open files that are larger than [some pretty low amount of kilobytes]. So it's definitely not being used to look through gigantic log files.
  - Sohcahtoa82 8y ago
    This hasn't been true for over a decade now.
    - Grue3 8y ago
      I'm still using Windows 7, so maybe it was improved at some point? If so, why is "Microsoft is updating Notepad" news in the first place?
nojvek 8y ago
Bing is how Windows makes money now. Kinda like how Android makes money through Google search and ads. So gotta put that bing touch points everywhere.

by Rondom 8y ago

phyzome 8y ago

Great! I've always wanted to accidentally send my password to a search engine.

OskarS 8y ago

I dunno, that doesn't sound like a crazy feature. The purpose of Notepad is many times to look through gigantic log files. When you find the error, you can just select it and then Bing it.

makapuf 8y ago
Sure even if your chosen search engine is ddg or gg on firefox (i guess it opens edge maybe) . No politics here. The purpose of notepad is to edit text with no frills. I would have liked better something like unicode encoding selection, minimap or invisible character toggling. Or even better searches options for anyone (regex could be a bit too far..)
kalleboo 8y ago
As a Mac user it seems crazy that it's an app feature. On the Mac, any app using the system text field automatically gets features like that (spellcheck, dictionary, google, text-to-speech, etc), and as I understand it, Notepad is just a basic wrapper around the Windows text control (hence the 32K limit etc)
- harrygeez 8y ago
  That's the difference. Apple had an actual opportunity to restart from scratch and design it right but Microsoft never did
Grue3 8y ago
IIRC Notepad won't even open files that are larger than [some pretty low amount of kilobytes]. So it's definitely not being used to look through gigantic log files.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y ago
  This hasn't been true for over a decade now.
  - Grue3 8y ago
    I'm still using Windows 7, so maybe it was improved at some point? If so, why is "Microsoft is updating Notepad" news in the first place?

nojvek 8y ago

Bing is how Windows makes money now. Kinda like how Android makes money through Google search and ads. So gotta put that bing touch points everywhere.