"gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance
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@blakeyrat said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
It's not broken, the entire point of Notepad is to provide a backwards-compatibility option for people with DOS text files they need to open. It's not Microsoft's fault people are (stupidly) using it for other things than that.
It is if they don't tell them that that's the entire point of Notepad. (And I don't believe I've ever heard anyone from Microsoft say that, to the point where I find your description of Notepad's entire purpose somewhat suspect...)
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@polygeekery said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
This will likely break blakey's positronic brain.
No, he'll just do what he does when he's proven wrong: don't answer
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@polygeekery said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
This will likely break blakey's positronic brain.
Blakey's alright, but he's not that cool.
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@captain said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
@polygeekery said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
This will likely break blakey's positronic brain.
Blakey's alright, but he's not that cool.
I always wonder what the hype about positronic brains is. Why the hell would you want your brain to run on anti-matter? Sounds like an accident waiting to happen (like, a literal :head_asplode:).
Filed under: I'll stick to electrons, thank you very much.
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@cvi said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
@captain said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
@polygeekery said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
This will likely break blakey's positronic brain.
Blakey's alright, but he's not that cool.
I always wonder what the hype about positronic brains is. Why the hell would you want your brain to run on anti-matter? Sounds like an accident waiting to happen (like, a literal :head_asplode:).
Filed under: I'll stick to electrons, thank you very much.
Wikipedia say:
When Asimov wrote his first robot stories in 1939 and 1940, the positron was a newly discovered particle, and so the buzz word positronic added a contemporary gloss of popular science to the concept.
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@masonwheeler said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
@blakeyrat said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
It's not broken, the entire point of Notepad is to provide a backwards-compatibility option for people with DOS text files they need to open. It's not Microsoft's fault people are (stupidly) using it for other things than that.
It is if they don't tell them that that's the entire point of Notepad. (And I don't believe I've ever heard anyone from Microsoft say that, to the point where I find your description of Notepad's entire purpose somewhat suspect...)
Yeah, I think it was just an edit control demo that never died.
Raymond Chen
March 18, 2004 at 7:52 am
Notepad is just a glorified edit control.
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Notepad is just a glorified edit control.
What a dumb excuse to not fix it
What should happen if a file contains mixed line terminators? Say a third of the lines end in CR, a third in CRLF and a third in LF. Should each line preserve its own terminator? What terminator should be assigned to new lines?
So crappy-open-source programs can figure it, but not Microsoft
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@timebandit The menus in Notepad are perfect, though.
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@boomzilla At least better than the ribbon
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@boomzilla said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
Notepad is just a glorified edit control.
"That we made the default handler of .txt files for the lulz! It's your own fault if you think that means it's a text editor or anything like that!"
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@cvi said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
@captain said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
@polygeekery said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
This will likely break blakey's positronic brain.
Blakey's alright, but he's not that cool.
I always wonder what the hype about positronic brains is. Why the hell would you want your brain to run on anti-matter? Sounds like an accident waiting to happen (like, a literal :head_asplode:).
Filed under: I'll stick to electrons, thank you very much.
Perhaps it's like a sort of insurance... Mess with data too much and he inadvertently blows up your planet
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@julianlam Johnny Mnumonic on speed, or something.
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@julianlam Definitively something you should mention before brain surgery.
Any diseases or pre-existing medical conditions we should know about? Allergies?
Um, no, not really. ... ... Actually, um ... My brain kinda runs on anti-matter. That's not a problem, right?
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@boomzilla said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
@timebandit The menus in Notepad are perfect, though.
Only from the time they added keyboard shortcuts to them (ca. Windows 95, IIRC). Very annoying to press Ctrl+S regularly, only find out after the next system crash that that didn’t actually do anything.
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@gurth said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
Very annoying to press Ctrl+S regularly, only find out after the next system crash
Spotted someone who, like me, worked on Win9x
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the awesome CPU-sucking features of gedit. Once in a while I accidentally open a file in gedit when I - for whatever reason - am working with the GUI instead of using vim in the terminal.
When you then forget to close the file you will notice that your computer will start to spin up fans to get rid of the extra heat. Checking (h)top them shows you that the gedit instance that is idling in the background is consuming 60-70% of CPU-time on a core, causing it to warm up.
I am tempted to take over gedit development and make it multithreaded, so that we can improve this awesome feature and waste CPU-cycles on multiple cores simultaneously. We can then use gedit as a simple heater program.
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@timebandit said in "gedit No Longer Maintained" - Good Riddance:
Spotted someone who, like me, worked on Win9x
And 3.11 before that. I eventually got annoyed enough about the lack of keyboard shortcuts in Notepad that I whipped up a quick clone of it in Visual Basic just so I could have them.