After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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There always has to be one...
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So... who wants to bet that the new version of Notepad is not constantly scraping anything you type into it and feeding it into the AI, regardless of whether you're paying for this feature or not?
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Is that Windows 11-only thing, or have I been missing a bunch of notepad features?
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You obviously didn't read the article, but that's OK it's a trash article anyway. Which is already indicated by the headline, since Notepad was never free, it's just included with Windows.
But your comment is disconnected from what this is really about, which essentially boils down to nothing.
Since what you are supposed to pay for is new AI features. Otherwise you can use Notepad as usual. -
Out if curiosity, which ones? Because I don't see any of those features and am on W11...
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Notepad++ is my text editor of choice as someone who just edits the occasional file. I'm not a programmer or anything, but it's nice to have those autocomplete and syntax highlighting features for config files. Helps me keep track of stuff better when editing.
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+10000 for notepad++, its he swiss army knife of file editing tools.
Adding:
Plugins: CSV being read as a small dB table you can query is a game changer. Or have a JSON plugin that auto formats and queries as well as opens the JSON in a clickable nested window.
Pinned tabs: pin important tabs, I use one as a todo list.
Search for text within files in a folder: need to find a specific bit of text in one of dozens/hundreds/thousands/millions of files somewhere? Its lightning fast and works a treat
Search and replace with regex: amazing feature, use regex patterns to find complex parts of your files and replace them with something else
Bulk operations: remove newline, replace line breaks etc
Multi format support: see line breaks from different OSs like Unix and windows and amend them
Portable install: you dont have to install it, you can use a portable versionSo much more, get it and you won't look back.
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Sublime text ftw
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That's actually very nice, one of the few Microsoft programs that I genuinely miss - layers are a quality of life feature that is actually really nice to have
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I prefer Sublime
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personally i find kate struggles with large files. KWrite is a better analog to notepad IMO
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Notepad++ on windows is kind of the GOAT IMO.
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On my W11 work machine I got dark mode, saving unsaved drafts and tabs
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Tbf, they already control the os itself. They already have access to all of the keystrokes. Implementing it just in notepad feels like a rube goldbergy way of scraping user data.
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the only thing I need it for is to select text vertically (by holding left alt). there are a few similar ones for linux but some crash and the rest don't have a dark theme, so I still use it with wine.
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Your first two points are part of Notepad now too. Everything else you've said is true though, including the find and replace function supporting regex. It's amazingly powerful for editing.
It also supports line numbering, which seems like a small thing but is really helpful.
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They have different use cases. Notepad++ is for manipulating text, strings, and code. It's got very powerful tools for it.
Word is for making things look pretty. You can change typefaces, fonts, size. You can add pictures and diagrams and arrange them on the page.
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I like how sublime looks. But it is absolutely ridiculous that is has no settings UI and expects you to go and manually edit a json file to change even basic settings. Insane. So that's a no from me.
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Holy moly, that works? I needed precisely that feature earlier! Nice.
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Genuinely very useful, however I feel that can be achieved without a login and paid AI subscription.
