Windows Notepad gets big upgrade

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Windows Notepad gets big upgrade

Notepad, the basic text editor that comes with Windows, will soon support Unix and classic MacOS line endings, Ars Technica reported.

Prior to supporting Unix standards, source code files written on Linux-bases and MacOS systems would have all their text appear on one line in Windows.

 

[swift412]

Only took them the better part of thirty years :crylaugh:

 

[digitalis]

I guess there are still people out there who have not yet shared in the joys of Notepad++

 

[garyc]

I guess there are still people out there who have not yet shared in the joys of Notepad++

^ That.

The world moved on a long time ago. Notepad was one of only two text editors out there that did not support this, out of over 60 of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors#Newline_support

 

[Gordon_R]

LOL,I still remember the MSDOS editor Edlin, that could only edit one line at a time!? Aaaargh...

 

[AstroTurf]

I guess there are still people out there who have not yet shared in the joys of Notepad++

:crylaugh:

 

[Shi]

Why not just drop it and get people to use WordPad!! Why do you need 2 text file editing apps.

 

[mercurial]

Is it not a MASSIVE upgrade?

 

[Dan C]

Will carry on using notepad++

 

[gregmcc]

I'll still stick to N++ thanks.

 

[Gordon_R]

Why not just drop it and get people to use WordPad!! Why do you need 2 text file editing apps.

IMO there is one valid reason for having both options. If you open a binary file in Notepad it just displays unprintable characters. If you open a binary file in Wordpad it tries to interpret the content as macros, Unicode or whatever, and usually crashes spectacularly...

 

[SA-UK]

IMO there is one valid reason for having both options. If you open a binary file in Notepad it just displays unprintable characters. If you open a binary file in Wordpad it tries to interpret the content as macros, Unicode or whatever, and usually crashes spectacularly...

they both mem hogs though...
N++ is far superior if you doing anything slightly more tech than merely reading/simple editing a file.

 

[kianm]

Well, so the thing can finally open config files and stuff properly

 

[JerryMungo]

And here I was thinking maybe tabs for multiple files, line numbers, but ja, this little addition will at least confuse one or two noobs a bit less so is welcome.

 

[biometrics]

To all the Notepad++ users, how can I get Control-F4 to close the current tab?

Edit: damn I should have Googled this years ago: https://superuser.com/questions/16914/why-doesnt-ctrlf4-work-in-notepad

 

[crackersa]

Nice that are technica is being sourced for news information

 

[JerryMungo]

Notepad++ is for those who haven't discovered Sublime

 

[biometrics]

Notepad++ is for those who haven't discovered Sublime

Duh. I use both.

 

[biometrics]

Nice that are technica is being sourced for news information

Are you trying to tell us you read Ars Technica?

 

[Dan C]

Notepad++ is for those who haven't discovered Sublime

Too old school for that.