@blakeyrat said:
@Daniel Beardsmore said:Because the obvious choice of a text editor is a program geared towards writing letters to your aunt. Plain text just means "set font to Courier New".
Uh. Huh? What are you talking about?
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
A proper Notepad would have things like regex find/filter/replace, cycle through files of the same type (Alt-Pg Up/Dn in JujuEdit), on-demand loading for large files (, and (read-only if necessary) hex view mode in case the file turns out to be binary, so you have a go-to program for checking what's in any file.
Congratulations, you're listing several reasons people using Notepad are idiots and should die.
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
Just tried to open (via Ctrl+O) a 6 GB log file in WordPad (Server 2008 R2):
Why would you do that? Why do you even have a 6 GB log file? Windows already has a logging system, which has absolutely nothing to do with Notepad.
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
Besides, if Notepad is so bad, why are .txt file still associated with it by default on every system including Server 2008 R2 and Windows 8?
Because .txt is the file type for DOS-style text files, and Notepad exists for DOS compatibility. At least that was the original reason. Now the reason is because a bunch of idiot apps written by morons rely on Notepad being the editor for .txt files. I think I JUST FUCKING WENT OVER THIS A FEW MINUTES AGO.
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
No confidence on Microsoft's part in their choice of text editor?
Huh?
Microsoft representatives have stated numerous times that they'd have dropped Notepad like a hot potato years and years ago if they could get away with it. Because of compatibility with idiot apps written by morons, they can't. In fact they actually (at least as of Vista) ship multiple copies of Notepad with the OS, since the idiot apps written by morons use different hard-coded paths to find it.
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
Filed under: We've had 64-bit integers for a long time now, Right tool for the job, My 1981 8-bit micro had 32-bit integers in BASIC
Your post delivers more "huh?" per-minute than any other post I've seen. Jesus, man. Make sense. MAKE SENSE!
Too lazy to properly thread responses into this, sorry. Yeah, Notepad's really just there so there's some basic functionality. If they put in a more featured app, people would scream "antitrust" faster than you could imagine, so it'll never get upgraded. Like I said, there's a ton of better things.
Blakey, I'm sure you know that lots of apps write their own logs. I use a database in my day job that writes a text log file; in my experience, almost nobody ever trims the log, so it's easy for the logs to be large enough to cause notepad to freeze briefly when opening them.
BTW as of WIndows 7 (I dont' have Vista to check) there are apparently only three copies left of Notepad: one in Windows, one in System32, and one in SysWow64 (the latter is a 32-bit version.)
A dir/s of the Windows directory shows several more copies but I believe that those are actually links, not additional copies. I thought I read on the Old New Thing that one of the first two I listed is a link as well, not an additional copy.