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Notepad for the longest time was just a lightweight app wrapped around a standard edit control. The same edit controls anyone could use in their applications.
by drewcoo 2y ago
Notepad for the longest time was just a lightweight app wrapped around a standard edit control. The same edit controls anyone could use in their applications.
Notepad was almost killed years ago, but shell dev/guru RaymondC[1] adopted it because people thought it was useful and he kept it alive.
Edit controls did not have spellcheck or autocorrect 41 years ago. The Ars writers are chronically misinformed/misinforming.
1. This RaymondC: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
- eesmith 2y agoArs didn't say that edit controls had spellcheck or autocorrect 41 years ago. They wrote: > In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app's limited but slowly growing set of capabilities. The update that adds these features to Notepad is now rolling out to all Windows 11 users via the Microsoft Store,
- compsciphd 2y agothough simple edit controls do have spellcheck and autocorrect these days (i.e. thinking the simple edit controls one expects from mobile devices / even the edit field I'm typing this into on a desktop web browser).