• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fun fact: Most of the features that people liked about the “new” Windows notepad were just stolen from Notepad++ anyway.

    So you may as well just use Notepad++ and enjoy a better experience, plus about a zillion other things like numerous plugins, syntax highlighting for just about every programming language under the sun, immensely configurable color schemes, etc., etc., etc.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Hardly “stolen”. Suff like tabs is very basic that n++ didn’t invent.

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        1 year ago

        And even if Notepad++ had invented it, it’s not “stealing” to do the same thing. Notepad++ still has its tabs, nobody stole them. Copied them, maybe. Inspired by them, perhaps. “Stolen” is just a deliberately emotion-baiting term.

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          1 year ago

          They had that in win10 as well for about a week and then they took it away hoping nobody noticed it so it could be a win11 feature instead.

    • AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      More likely they are direct ports of things from the highly popular Visual Studio Code as a lot of people used to bound out RAW HTML and other code in notepad for YEARS before Notepad++ was a thing.