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It seems as though Windows Notepad is one of the most hated programs in existence, judging by the number of
TextEditors designed specifically to replace it.
What do you think?
- I do not agree with the above statement. Notepad is intentionally made simple, which makes it useful in many occasions. In my opinion it can, in fact, get even simpler. The reason behind Notepad "replacement" is other than simply hating it. I use various text editors for various purposes and have created my own as well. I think the term "Notepad replacement" is rather to emphasize that the application is going to be similar to Notepad, because Notepad is already known to everyone.
- Notepad is universal, but limited. Older versions (Win 3.X/95/98) had a 64K limit on the size of an edited file. Larger than that, and you were forced to Wordpad, which is a different animal. Notepad is also stupid. In particular, it doesn't grok Unix line endings. There are almost as many reasons to replace it with something as there are users of replacements. --DMcCunney
This is practically one of the
TextEditorFamilies
In fact, I will add it.
And I populated it (--
DMcCunney)
Is there a limit to how much an editor can implement before it moves beyond being a Notepad replacement? Is the criterion simply that it can sit on the Windows desktop and have a file dragged to it to open?
Here's the criterion for me: would you use the editor to be automatically invoked by Subversion to enter a commit comment? That means, to me, that the editor does not store session info: it always pops up with a clean slate.
(This implies, in turn, single buffer per instance.) I use MetaPad for this purpose.
NotepadPlusPlus bills itself as a Notepad replacement but I wouldn't use it for that because Notepad++ stores too much session state.
- — KismetCow
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