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I don't get the nostalgia for NotePad - the most featureless piece of software ever invented.
by cutler 2y ago
I don't get the nostalgia for NotePad - the most featureless piece of software ever invented.
- setopt 2y agoThere's something to say for minimalism as a distraction-free mechanism. I've wasted a lot of time during my life reconfiguring Emacs or Vim, switching back and forth between various GUI note-taking apps, or tweaking my LaTeX preambles. The brutal minimalism of something like NotePad leaves you with less distractions. I think it's the same reason I sometimes decide to leave the computer entirely and grab some pen and paper to really get things done.
- eviks 2y agoWhen you can't even undo properly (while you're used to this in other apps), does this annoyance not distract you from whatever you're doing in the text editor?
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- Levitating 2y ago> There's something to say for minimalism as a distraction-free mechanism. I think there's little credit to be given here. A text widget is part of any gui toolkit and there are hundreds of notepad like text editors. I think basically every DE on Linux has their own...
- qwertox 2y agoI feel the same. If a text editor doesn't have at least multiple levels of undo, it's worthless. IDK if it even had redo. There's been UltraEdit since 1994, SciTE since 1999, Notepad++ since 2003, the browser's address bar to remove formatting or just for holding some text...
- vunderba 2y agoHonestly, I also don't know anyone who has any fond remembrance of notepad. The majority of my friends on windows used notepad++ and then later sublime. Just like how almost everyone I knew used Paint.NET rather than mspaint.