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Cannot say if Notepad does it in recent versions, but on older Windows systems Wordpad was useful to quickly open texts made on Linux (with just LF instead of C
by jaclaz 3y ago
Cannot say if Notepad does it in recent versions, but on older Windows systems Wordpad was useful to quickly open texts made on Linux (with just LF instead of CR+LF) which in Notepad would show as uninterrupted.
- hypercube33 3y agoI think it's killed by Word Online (free-ish) and VSCode over at the Seattle company.
- niutech 3y agoWord Online requires sending docs to MS cloud and VSCode doesn't provide text formatting, so they are different things.
- alexey-salmin 3y agoExactly, the only reason why I was sticking to WordPad whenever I had to use a windows machine
- dawidpotocki 3y agoThey did indeed add LF support to Notepad, 5 years ago: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-notepad/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-n...
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoTook them long enough, honestly it was bizarre how long it took them. Even worse was how resizing the notepad window would introduce newlines into the text if you saved it.
- jaclaz 3y agoThank you, though now I cannot anymore honestly state that MS did not introduce any new meaningful feature in Windows 10 ;).
- pjmlp 3y agoThey introduced plenty of meaningful features for WinRT development, unfortunately they managed to kill most of them on the years thereafter.
- zamadatix 3y agoI know you're being sarcastic but it also introduced the virtual desktop switcher, (full) DX12, made significant improvements to the console, added real ARM support for the desktop OS, replaced IE, implemented proper DPI support (all the way to per-monitor true fractional), added openssh, actual HDR support, and many more things that can be surprisingly hard to go without if you revert to a previous release. There is always plenty wrong with each new release but the comments and jokes about ${"LATEST_RELEASE"} of ${"SOFTWARE"} being unilaterally worse just make me think the person can't deal with something changing instead of the software actually being bad. Comments and jokes about how they could have an entire new release worth of features just bringing back what they've removed or reverse-improved over the years however... that I agree with ;).
- hulitu 3y ago> I know you're being sarcastic but it also introduced the virtual desktop switcher Which is a PITA to use, so useless. > , (full) DX12, made significant improvements to the console Cmd.exe is still the same > , added real ARM support for the desktop OS, Not relevant > replaced IE, Not fully. They still have it as a menu item in Edge > implemented proper DPI support (all the way to per-monitor true fractional), YMMV. This one is hit or miss. > added openssh, actual HDR support, and many more things that can be surprisingly hard to go without if you revert to a previous release. You cannot revert to a previous release in Windows. > There is always plenty wrong with each new release but the comments and jokes about ${"LATEST_RELEASE"} of ${"SOFTWARE"} being unilaterally worse just make me think the person can't deal with something changing instead of the software actually being bad. When SW changes just for the sake of change (see calc.exe), something is wrong. > Comments and jokes about how they could have an entire new release worth of features just bringing back what they've removed or reverse-improved over the years however... that I agree with ;). Also agree.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoIt still sucks at opening HL7 files, which have line endings as CR (and just CR). WordPad handles these out of the box.