Simplicity = Notepad

MS Notepad: This has got to be one of the greatest app's ever
Simplicity at it's best

i hope i'm not alone in reminding all devs/thinkers at ms that simple is appreciated - especially in design.

...so whatever you do - don't:
> not add this!- add this! yourselves to death

google is notepad

You touch notepad and I'll kill myself.. and maybe some of you.. you have been warned

The only one thing I ever wanted in notepad that doesn't exist is a *nix line converter-button Ascii(10 > 13+10), but if I had to choose between having this one feature and having to put up with all the other features people wanted then I would say just leave it alone!

I wouldn't want an additional menu item to convert unix text files, but rather an option in the 'Files of Type' list of the Open/Save file dialog window.

While we're on the topic of simple applications, please bring back Terminal from Windows 3.x . Trying to use HyperTerminal just isn't the same when playing with RS232 stuff.

Also, a new feature for notepad would I would like to see would be the ability to show line numbers, but not have this as a menu item, but keep it as a keyboard shortcut toggle.

I would love to be able to change the tab size.  The 8-space tab is too much for heavily indented code.

Boy, was I glad when they added the "Goto line" function.  Woo-hoo!

I could think of a zillion other little nice things to add, but then it wouldn't be notepad; it wouldn't be a simple text editor.  For all those other little things, I should remember to use Emacs.  But for a quick .config edit or whatnot, nothing beats Notepad.

I like the new Notepad2 editor (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html). It's simple like Notepad but adds stuff that's appropriate for writing code - line numbers, syntax colouring, indent/un-indent, Unix line endings, convert spaces to tabs, etc.

I have to agree about the "?" menu. You can turn off the status bar and the toolbar from the View menu, if you don't like them.

jamie wrote:

MS Notepad: This has got to be one of the greatest app's ever
Simplicity at it's best

in all honesty, i was speaking more on the simplicity side - comparing an app that MS probably thinks is dopey or tiny - to the simple style of google

Notepad is a small simple USEFUL app - as is simple search to google

just was saying - its not always about features and bigger and better

its the core function...

Side note/example
* this is why im not to enamoured with the new  Windows/office clipboard on steroids - id like it to just copy and paste the data and not try to guess about formatting

MS Devs:  "Just copy it in to Notepad and out again"

ahh  simplicity..

duped post - ignore

* can we get delete soon?

For decent find/replace features you have to open the file in wordpad instead of notepad

edit: Oh i forgot some capabilities were added

Jamie.. read this thread.. and then read your IE FTP thread again.