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That just feels like scope creep. Notepad would also be neat with some better keybinding support, plugins, lsp, ... - but then it wouldn't be notepad, and there
by arghwhat 1y ago
That just feels like scope creep. Notepad would also be neat with some better keybinding support, plugins, lsp, ... - but then it wouldn't be notepad, and theres countless not notepads out there.
Tools like nano (well, pico) exist to provide a reliable and always available minimum feature set. If you expand it, then you end up with something that is neither the minimum nor capable enough to sensibly compete with fully fledged alternatives.
- eviks 1y agoNo, it would still be notepad, but a higher quality one where especially users who don’t know better wouldn’t have to suffer as much from bad/lacking functionality
- arghwhat 1y agoMore features ≠ higher quality.
- eviks 1y agoBut lack of useful features = lower quality, so you're just arguing for a permanent state of poor quality for some strange change-resisting reason and the fact that alternatives exist (so? why should that stop your alternative from becoming better?)
- arghwhat 1y agoNo. Adding superfluous features to an intentionally minimal baseline program defacto reduces it's quality by making it less suitable for its task and more likely to have defects. There's decades worth of options for fatter editors out there. Tools like nano (and now edit) is ubiquitous because they are not such editors, and people need a reliable baseline without such features.
- niutech 1y agoThere are already: Notepad3 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad3/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad3/) or metapad (https://liquidninja.com/metapad/ https://liquidninja.com/metapad/).
- eviks 1y agoBut they aren't part of Windows, so "users who don’t know better" continue to suffer!
- divbzero 1y agoWell, Notepad is introducing AI support which already feels like scope creep to me… https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enhance-your-writing-with-ai-in-notepad-4088b954-c97b-46dc-813f-959be01746d5 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enhance-your-wri...