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Please show me the few sentence prompt to create a windows 10 level notepad.exe clone that I can quickly open and use by hitting win+r

5o1ecist 8mo ago
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- soupfordummies 8mo ago
  while this is cool and I want to play with it myself, it's still sort of discounting the overhead here of installing python, installing tkinter, adding shortcuts to the program within Windows, etc. Of course the barrier to creating bespoke tools is lower but it's also still a decent bit of overhead and not just "hey AI, create me a Notepad clone that works like it used to". Arguably it's still more intensive than googling "notepad clone" and just downloading n++.
  - 5o1ecist 8mo ago
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    - javascriptfan69 8mo ago
      >Are you moving the goalpost? I mean you did originally claim that this was something that was "for the masses" and then posted a solution that only someone technical could actually use. Not that I doubt it couldn't one shot something this simple with a .exe wrapper.
      - 5o1ecist 8mo ago
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    - soupfordummies 8mo ago
      Yeah that’s fair. It’s also sort of a given that anyone on this site is pretty well versed with technical stuff so maybe results would vary with Tina over in HR, for instance. I think that sort of “last mile” problem is what agents like claw etc are supposed to help with. Also, any reason you prefer Perplexity? Haven’t really used that one before TBH
      - 5o1ecist 8mo ago
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        soupfordummies 8mo ago
        Thanks for the detailed response, lol. Seems like it’s more personally tailorable than some of the others. Gonna give it a try with some similar vibe coding ideas
- pqtyw 8mo ago
  > Welcome to 2026 But anyone with basic experience in Python could have written that same app in minutes 20 years ago?
  - 5o1ecist 8mo ago
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    - pqtyw 8mo ago
      Well at least 10-15 you could just copy pasted exact same thing in a few minutes yet. But regardless even a basic notepad app is significantly more than a tkinter window with an input field.
- well_ackshually 8mo ago
  >python >tkinter so you missed the part where notepad starts instantly, doesn't choke on files larger than 25KB and uses native Win32 controls ?
  - Dylan16807 8mo ago
    It only takes a few megabytes to make notepad have serious delays. Are you sure the linked program is any worse?
    - cwillu 8mo ago
      There's a world of difference between 25kb and 2mb
      - Dylan16807 8mo ago
        The 25KB number is almost certainly not real, or meant to be particularly accurate.
- mmh0000 8mo ago
  lol calling Python lightweight: ⟩ dnf install --downloadonly --installroot /tmp/yourmom python3 …SNIP… Transaction Summary: Installing: 59 packages Total size of inbound packages is 33 MiB. Need to download 33 MiB. After this operation, 118 MiB extra will be used (install 118 MiB, remove 0 B). The operation will only download packages for the transaction. Don't get me wrong, Python is a great many things. Easy to use, surprisingly fast for a scripting language, and well documented. But not lightweight. (( The Windows version is 110MiB after decompression. ))
tracker1 8mo ago
I think Dave (of Dave's Garage) did this just a few months ago... I think there were some short-comings regarding wide character support (BoM detection, etc)... but it was pretty much a working Notepad.exe implementation. FWIW, you can also get the new Edit implementation that's built with Rust and the Windows exe is 250kb...
- fuzzylightbulb 8mo ago
  Thought of this immediately after reading the parent comment. I was actually pretty shocked at how seamless the whole project was.

5o1ecist 8mo ago

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soupfordummies 8mo ago
while this is cool and I want to play with it myself, it's still sort of discounting the overhead here of installing python, installing tkinter, adding shortcuts to the program within Windows, etc. Of course the barrier to creating bespoke tools is lower but it's also still a decent bit of overhead and not just "hey AI, create me a Notepad clone that works like it used to". Arguably it's still more intensive than googling "notepad clone" and just downloading n++.
- 5o1ecist 8mo ago
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  - javascriptfan69 8mo ago
    >Are you moving the goalpost? I mean you did originally claim that this was something that was "for the masses" and then posted a solution that only someone technical could actually use. Not that I doubt it couldn't one shot something this simple with a .exe wrapper.
    - 5o1ecist 8mo ago
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  - soupfordummies 8mo ago
    Yeah that’s fair. It’s also sort of a given that anyone on this site is pretty well versed with technical stuff so maybe results would vary with Tina over in HR, for instance. I think that sort of “last mile” problem is what agents like claw etc are supposed to help with. Also, any reason you prefer Perplexity? Haven’t really used that one before TBH
    - 5o1ecist 8mo ago
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      - soupfordummies 8mo ago
        Thanks for the detailed response, lol. Seems like it’s more personally tailorable than some of the others. Gonna give it a try with some similar vibe coding ideas
pqtyw 8mo ago
> Welcome to 2026 But anyone with basic experience in Python could have written that same app in minutes 20 years ago?
- 5o1ecist 8mo ago
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  - pqtyw 8mo ago
    Well at least 10-15 you could just copy pasted exact same thing in a few minutes yet. But regardless even a basic notepad app is significantly more than a tkinter window with an input field.
well_ackshually 8mo ago
>python >tkinter so you missed the part where notepad starts instantly, doesn't choke on files larger than 25KB and uses native Win32 controls ?
- Dylan16807 8mo ago
  It only takes a few megabytes to make notepad have serious delays. Are you sure the linked program is any worse?
  - cwillu 8mo ago
    There's a world of difference between 25kb and 2mb
    - Dylan16807 8mo ago
      The 25KB number is almost certainly not real, or meant to be particularly accurate.
mmh0000 8mo ago
lol calling Python lightweight: ⟩ dnf install --downloadonly --installroot /tmp/yourmom python3 …SNIP… Transaction Summary: Installing: 59 packages Total size of inbound packages is 33 MiB. Need to download 33 MiB. After this operation, 118 MiB extra will be used (install 118 MiB, remove 0 B). The operation will only download packages for the transaction. Don't get me wrong, Python is a great many things. Easy to use, surprisingly fast for a scripting language, and well documented. But not lightweight. (( The Windows version is 110MiB after decompression. ))

tracker1 8mo ago

I think Dave (of Dave's Garage) did this just a few months ago... I think there were some short-comings regarding wide character support (BoM detection, etc)... but it was pretty much a working Notepad.exe implementation. FWIW, you can also get the new Edit implementation that's built with Rust and the Windows exe is 250kb...

fuzzylightbulb 8mo ago
Thought of this immediately after reading the parent comment. I was actually pretty shocked at how seamless the whole project was.