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There are two aspects of the original Notepad that will never be duplicated. First, all the heavy lifting was done by built-in Windows components, it was just
by mark-r 5y ago
There are two aspects of the original Notepad that will never be duplicated. First, all the heavy lifting was done by built-in Windows components, it was just a simple wrapper. You could probably write your own replacement in an afternoon. Second, it was preinstalled on every single Windows machine, you could always count on it being there.
- merlinscholz 5y agoI believe you're thinking about the wrong notepad, the linked project is inspired by Notepad++, not the Windows default Notepad
- mark-r 5y agoThat is correct, I'm going back to the inspiration behind the inspiration. Notepad++ lacks the same properties compared to the original
- billforsternz 5y ago... and suffered by comparison in those aspects, but was infinitely superior in every other way that matters (and there are a lot of other ways that matter).
- mark-r 5y agoTo be clear, I'm not arguing that Notepad++ or NotepadNext isn't superior to Notepad. I'm simply pointing out that the original Notepad had useful properties that have been lost. I didn't think that would be controversial.
- billforsternz 5y agoYes, I understood your point and I agree it's not controversial. (My response was not so much pushback as feeling a need to point out Notepad was something of a wasted opportunity, it had those fundamental advantages but wasted them by being so miserably awful IMHO).
- euos 5y agoI remember you could generate Notepad from the MFC wizard in Visual Studio 6.0. With menus and all... Notepad++ is different.