Notepad Bug?!?
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After all these years of using Notepad, I came across this little feature that may be considered a bug. If you open Notepad, type something in and then delete all of it (i.e., Ctrl+A, Ctrl+X), closing it will close Notepad without prompting you to save it. The only reason I started doing this was I needed to copy some HTML text without the markup, and Notepad was the obvious choice. I actually like this feature because I know I don't need to save it. However, I don't seem to recall seeing this prior to XP, and it seems likely that I would have selected everything in Notepad for deletion at some point in my life and closed it and run into this, but I can't remember ever doing so. Anyone has their little quirks that they've come across? "If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS
I've used this feature for years knowing that it won't prompt me.
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There's other bad things about notepad. The ctrl+s don't save. That's the worst thing with it. The PROgrammer Niklas Ulvinge aka IDK
Ctrl+S works fine in Windows 2000's Notepad.
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After all these years of using Notepad, I came across this little feature that may be considered a bug. If you open Notepad, type something in and then delete all of it (i.e., Ctrl+A, Ctrl+X), closing it will close Notepad without prompting you to save it. The only reason I started doing this was I needed to copy some HTML text without the markup, and Notepad was the obvious choice. I actually like this feature because I know I don't need to save it. However, I don't seem to recall seeing this prior to XP, and it seems likely that I would have selected everything in Notepad for deletion at some point in my life and closed it and run into this, but I can't remember ever doing so. Anyone has their little quirks that they've come across? "If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS
If you've been using notepad for years, then I don't think the bug is in the software. Haven't you heard of EmEditor, or any of the (probably thousands) other choices? Notepad is not an editor, it is just a little demo app showing how to stretch a textbox far beyond the limits for which it was designed. Sorry, I just don't have much sympathy for massochists. ;P Get yourself a real editor. :mad: Matt Gerrans
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If you've been using notepad for years, then I don't think the bug is in the software. Haven't you heard of EmEditor, or any of the (probably thousands) other choices? Notepad is not an editor, it is just a little demo app showing how to stretch a textbox far beyond the limits for which it was designed. Sorry, I just don't have much sympathy for massochists. ;P Get yourself a real editor. :mad: Matt Gerrans
I actually use UltraEdit. However, when I'm at the client's office, Notepad is all I have on the desktop that they provide me with. You're right about it being a demo app, but it is still a very useful tool depending on how one uses it. Most text editors are too overloaded, kind of like the ICQ website when it became popular. :-D "If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS
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After all these years of using Notepad, I came across this little feature that may be considered a bug. If you open Notepad, type something in and then delete all of it (i.e., Ctrl+A, Ctrl+X), closing it will close Notepad without prompting you to save it. The only reason I started doing this was I needed to copy some HTML text without the markup, and Notepad was the obvious choice. I actually like this feature because I know I don't need to save it. However, I don't seem to recall seeing this prior to XP, and it seems likely that I would have selected everything in Notepad for deletion at some point in my life and closed it and run into this, but I can't remember ever doing so. Anyone has their little quirks that they've come across? "If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS
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Huh? Notepad is *extremely* buggy. It probably hasn't been updated in many years and often screws up documents. Cheers, Tom Archer - Visual C++ MVP Archer Consulting Group "So look up ahead at times to come, despair is not for us. We have a world and more to see, while this remains behind." - James N. Rowe
Tom Archer wrote: It probably hasn't been updated in many years - UNICODE support - Ctrl-S for save - .LOG Tom Archer wrote: and often screws up documents How? Never had thaqt happen
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I don't think that's a bug since you are undoing your typing. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
It wasn't an undo. But, since Notepad seems to have only one level of undo it should see it as a change and prompt you.
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Tom Archer wrote: It probably hasn't been updated in many years - UNICODE support - Ctrl-S for save - .LOG Tom Archer wrote: and often screws up documents How? Never had thaqt happen
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peterchen wrote: - .LOG ???
create a text documentthat has only
.LOGon the first line. Open with notepad. play around. enjoy!
Pandoras Gift #44: Hope. The one that keeps you on suffering.
aber.. "Wie gesagt, der Scheiss is' Therapie"
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create a text documentthat has only
.LOGon the first line. Open with notepad. play around. enjoy!
Pandoras Gift #44: Hope. The one that keeps you on suffering.
aber.. "Wie gesagt, der Scheiss is' Therapie"
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist | doxygenpeterchen wrote: create a text documentthat has only .LOG on the first line. Open with notepad. play around. enjoy! Wow, that's cool. Thanks Peterchen.