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Seriously, just stop (or use Linux) (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Picture of text written in Notepad: STOP UPDATING NOTEPAD. TEXT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN UNORDERED LISTS. YEARS OF DEFAULT APP yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND FOR BASIC FORMATTING OPTIONS. Wanted to format anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "WORDPAD". "Yes please give me LINKS in my file. Please give me HEADERS." - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged. LOOK at what Microsoft has been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the programming language & technology we built for them (This is REAL Notepad, made by REAL Microsoft): ??????? ?????? ???????? "Hello I would like TABLES in a future update" They have played us for absolute fools
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[–] 16 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Unfortunately it has a use. Microsoft discontinued WordPad

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Both classic Notepad and classic WordPad can be downloaded and installed from third-party sites.

    However, to thoroughly neuter the enshittified versions and ensure the classic versions are used in all workflows can take a bit more than what the installers recommend. Primarily, I would recommend adding the *.bak extension to the enshittified versions then make (IIRC) junction links from the classic ones to where the enshittified ones are sitting. This ensures that if anything reaches for the enshittified ones, the junction links are there to redirect the action to the classic versions.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I hated wordpad. New notepad is so much better than the old. An undo on old notepad would undo the last 1-7 sentences randomly, and wouldn't redo. Remembering notes is also good, and I love markdown.
    I don't use the ai and it never was in the way of what I needed, so whatever.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The last time I used notepad the undo option worked both as undo and redo, since it only kept the latest change and undoing was also a change that could be undone.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I sometimes put together long bash commands to pull docker image updates. I would take five minutes building up a command, make a typo, pressed undo by muscle memory and most of what I typed out would be gone with no way to undo.
    This was no one time occurrence, because I'm too lazy to pull up vscode or something else, it would be a weekly occurrence.
    I cried when that old piece of junk updated to the new notepad. Never had that issue since.

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