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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
by 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 agoSure 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 agoAs 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 agoThat's the difference. Apple had an actual opportunity to restart from scratch and design it right but Microsoft never did
- Grue3 8y agoIIRC 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 agoThis hasn't been true for over a decade now.
- Grue3 8y agoI'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?