Why not a new Notepad to Vista?

With all menus replaced by Tabs in 2007 Office,the Windows Vista still has the same old Notepad which comes with Windows right from 2000.
Event the Solitaire in a new one. Wat the Vista guys could do is probably put a Tab concept in Notepad. Not telling to remove the Menus.But put the tabs as that in IE 7.

Wat do u think abt it guys?

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G Krishnaa

You haven't heard about the new NotePad icon?

I don't want a new notepad in Vista... However I would like to see them fix the *NIX new line thing...

Manip wrote:

I don't want a new notepad in Vista... However I would like to see them fix the *NIX new line thing...

QFE.

I don't mind having a new one that will be cool, if they would add a new one it would be cool if they can give a normal mode and developers mode, so that u can switch to developers mode, which i dunno provides very simple highlighting and tabbing support for the normal languages, markup, C, C++.

My biggest annoyance in Notepad 2600 is that when I save a file, it would frequently move the cursor and text around, but not refresh that text until it's selected. Thus when I select text it's different from what I saw before selecting it. Selecting all and then deselecting all would fix this problem.  This happens most of the time when I save a file.  I haven't noticed this in Notepad 5308 or 5342.

gkrishnaa wrote:

Wat the Vista guys could do is probably put a Tab concept in Notepad. Not telling to remove the Menus.But put the tabs as that in IE 7.

Oh god please don't! What is it these days and people with tabs? Ever since a browser had tabs, everything HAS to have tabs. IMO, a browser with tabs, yes a good idea, it's one of the few programs that has many, many windows open all over the joint and tabs for that are justified, notepad, hell no. Windows Explorer shouldn't have tabs either (but that's off topic).

The only change I would make to notepad would be line numbers, VS style, otherwise it does what it aims to do perfectly, there's no need for changes to basic functionality, maybe some style, but that's it. All the added garbage just slows it down, which defeats the purpose of it, it's designed to open super fast and provide straight text editing, if I wanted heaps of formatting and the like, I'd open Word.

notepad is so successfull because it is so simple.

Although a notepad+ or something seperate/aswell would be cool, tabs and colors for coding, like the linux text editors.

I wouldn't mind some syntax highlighting for common file types, maybe a tab option... or is this going beyond what Notepad is supposed to be?

Please don't mess with Notepad.  I even like the CRLF vs. LF incompatibility.  If I need to read UNIX text files I use Wordpad.

Why don't you write a new MMC?

I use notepad2 , quite good. Supports syntax highlighting, line numbers etc. The most favourite feature which i adore, is the gotoline function

yman wrote:

I use notepad2 , quite good. Supports syntax highlighting, line numbers etc. The most favourite feature which i adore, is the gotoline function

Modal find dialog though. Absolutely unforgivable...

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