Why not a new Notepad to Vista? | The Coffeehouse

gkrishnaa
tHe oNe

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

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

You haven't heard about the new NotePad icon?

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Keep it simple, let it as it is.

Manip

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

IRenderable
Pi

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.

Winston Pang

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++.

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

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.

Ideas Man

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.

balupton
I'm a actually a bot.

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.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

balupton wrote:

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

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Wells

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?

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

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

I've been logging DNS requests on my Windows DNS server (because I'm seeing way more DNS traffic than normal, and wondered if people were trying to kick off the recursion attacks).

The Windows DNS server logs in *nix style. LF only.

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

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.

Ion Todirel
buuu

how about new MMC, i don't like it at all, its so ugly.

Manip

Why don't you write a new MMC?

yman

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

AndyC

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...

Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker

blowdart wrote:

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| |   | Shell Script. Would you like to turn on colour      |
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It's the devil I tell you!

yman

Yeah, it is annoying.

It is open source though, so you should be able to recompile it without it showing it is a modal.

bondsbw

AndyC wrote:
Modal find dialog though. Absolutely unforgivable...

I agree as well. Perhaps my favorite feature of Firefox is it's find bar that pops up right above the status bar. Even modeless find windows can get annoying because they are windows and they tend to cover up the text being searched. I'd like to see the Firefox-style find bar in Notepad2.

Detroit Muscle
Wii!

Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything

I think if they made Notepad anymore powerful then they'd come close to some noncompetition laws or something. Plus if it aint broke don't fix it.

sbc
GW R/Me

Wells wrote:
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?

Syntax highlighting may be too much. If it only did some certain languages (C#, VB.NET, C++, HTML, XML (i.e. those supported by existing Microsoft tools)) then you would get people complaining about missing languages. You couldn't implement all languages (to please all possible developers) as it could take a lot of time and resources to do so.

Regular expression search would be a good addition though. Tabs seem to be getting popular now as well.

IRenderable
Pi

Detroit Muscle wrote:

I agree. Gedit is nice (Though I just use it in the same way I would use Notepad except with tabs, I use Vim for coding).

Karim
Trapped in a world he never made!

blowdart wrote:

balupton wrote:

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

*pop*

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/  \   / Hi,                                                 \
|  |   |                                                     |
@  @   | It looks like you're trying to write a Windows      | 
|  |   | Shell Script. Would you like to turn on colour      |
|| ||  | coding?                                             |
|| ||  \_____________________________________________________/
|\_/|
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LOL