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- BLyn, on 10/10/2007, -2/+36That and Grandma doesn't need notepad++ to write her code.
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -10/+43Yes, MS could write every application 99% of users need on their Desktop. Why dont they? Respect for the health of the application developer ecosystem.
NOT writing all these apps leaves space for independant apps to emerge.
Its a Good Thing(TM). - saleem, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21agreed. dont put down MS for not writing these powerful applications. if they *DID*, then people would complain about over-kill or slow or bulky or useless applications
- Miniman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19You have never worked in an office before.
- halleyscomet, on 10/10/2007, -8/+24So, did you pick Red Hat, Debian or ReactOS?
- chris4404, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Where is Total Commander?
- arcooke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Well judging by his name.......
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Finally someone gets it. and MSPaint is fine too. my only complain is the crapiness of it when it comes to jpeg compression of images.
- redxii, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12If they wrote a better text editor, they'd be accused of using their position to put other text editors out of business.
- SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12However, some of those (example: file copying) aren't just "leaving space to the developer ecosystem", they are just plain broken. A bit of effort to make it not frustrating would be nice.
- Meep3D, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11It's replacements for Windows apps, not DOS apps.
- subliminalurge, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10"That and Grandma doesn't need notepad++ to write her code."
Nope, my grandma does all of her development in Visual Studio .NET.
*****' old people. - strictnein, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Notepad++ rocks. And why should having tabs in a text editor be any more or any less useful than having tabs in a browser? Both enable increased productivity.
- pcpimpster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Miniman you nailed it right on the head.
Scouring the internet for a working driver version for your four year old device doesnt make you a power user. - jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7You sir, ARE a gimp.
- javaroast, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I remember when they said who the hell needs tabs in a browser ;) I have Ultraedit and couldn't live without it. Notetab++ is nice as well and the price is right
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Thanks a lot. Never knew of the alt-tab replacement.
- flarn2006, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Ctrl+X to your heart's content? Ctrl+X is for Cut. Undo is Ctrl+Z.
- Mallus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Actually, that's a perfectly good reason, when you consider that MS has been forced to REMOVE features in the past, due to fears that they were stifling competition by putting bundling too much functionality with the operating system.
- pineappleclock, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6What about charmap.exe? Last time I searched there were no good replacements for the standard windows character map
- mercano, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I use metapad ( http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/ ) in place of notepad (went as far as replacing notepad.exe with it). Its basically notepad with extra features, such as Unix line endings, but retains the simple interface and lightweight code of its predicessor.
For a Cygwin terminals, take a look at rxvt. Again, not as fully featured as the option presented in TFA, but it does what is supposed to do, and is far better option to housing your bash prompts in DOS boxes. You'll find it listed in the "Shells" section of the package list in the Cygwin installer. Once installed, delete the last line of cygwin.bat with:
set SHELL=/usr/bin/bash
rxvt --loginShell
You don't need to start X11 or anything. Google will point eveyones' different opinion on what you should put in ~/.Xdefaults to customize the appearance of the window just right, but IMHO,
rxvt.font: Lucida Console-14
rxvt.reverseVideo: true
rxvt.scrollBar: true
rxvt.scrollBar_right: true
rxvt.cursorColor: green - captjc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Once you really start using tabs, you will wonder how you lived without them
- SanTe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5...and DoubleSpace. Or did you never get to experience the ecstasy of seeing your partition corrupted beyond repair for no reason?
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5They should at least make notepad respect standards and use line feed for a new line character instead of the current stupid mess.
- ThePict, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Old school coders tend to have a lot of text files open at a time. Tabbed interface makes it easier to find the document you want.
- shakin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7No, the reason why Microsoft doesn't include better programs isn't because they are encouraging small developers or because they're afraid of a lawsuit, it's because including those programs won't make them more money. Nobody is going to decide not to buy Windows because they want a better text editor.
During Browser Wars I Microsoft decided that having the number 1 web browser was important to their long-term strategy so they built a really good one (IE 4). Then they stopped improving it because having a better browser wasn't going to make them any more money now that they had little competition and it was obvious that the browser wasn't going to replace the OS anytime soon. - pcpimpster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Nice list. Notepad++ is more of dev environment then a comparison to Notepad though. But i guess if you are still coding in notepad...
- mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Gimp seriously sucks ass, bigtime. I'd really like to spend ten minutes alone in a dark alley with the moron who decided not to use standard interface widgets when designing that magnificent piece of *****.
- WonderBoy55, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Can I get a power replacement for Minesweeper or Solitaire?
- adolfojp, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Not only that. Whenever they bundle apps they get sued for abusing their monopoly.
- yingjai, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4stuff like notepad and paint are perfect the way they are. minimalistic. i dont understand why people need notepad replacement. might as well go all out and use ms word or adobe photoshop.
- tardpicard, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Burrrrnn!, no vim luv huh? I'd have to agree. Dont' get me wrong, vim is super efficient if you're good with it, but it's a little too cryptic for my taste.
- nirav72, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Good list. Another good utility for task scheduling is BuildIt. http://www.coderanger.com/products/buildit/
- MoonZ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Already using several in this list, although I have SuperCopier instead of TeraCopy. I'd also add Taskbar Shuffle (re-arrange taskbar buttons and systray icons)
- PatrickBrown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3A good example of why the model will eventually fail. There are only so many improvements you can make before encroaching on other software companies' territory.
Too bad they do not have a distributed model and different pricing scheme like some other operating systems ;) - karel747, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yeah...That was called a joke. Did you only read the last line or something?
- MusicalGenius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's MS, people only complain cause they are big and have more money and Bill Gates doesn't share it with people who want to be rich...
If Apple was the big giant, Digg would be more MS fan boys and less Apple... these are the birds and bees of people hating companies. - GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Vim rules all.
- TheSeeker11, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2About the only two on that list worth using are 7-Zip and Process Explorer. (Most things from Sysinternals are worth using.)
- psykiv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Really, the only bad thing (imo) about the windows file transfer is if there is one error, it stops the process. wtf is wrong with continuing the process, then listing out the errors to me in a log file or something, seriously?
- Guspaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I need a notepad replacement not because I need more features, but because it's buggy. Here are just some of the problems with it:
1) It can't handle different carriage return formats, forcing you to use wordpad for many text files.
2) It has strange bugs where it moves the cursor without asking you when you do certain things, like save
3) Copying text that has been word wrapped inserts newlines into the copied text
4) Enabling wordwrap and then typing on lines causes problems, as word wrap doesn't update as you type
So, notepad would be fine without any extra features, if it just WORKED properly. All these bugs are STILL present in Vista. If only they'd fix these problems, I'd be fine with it. - Gir53457, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The only real use yo should have for notepad is making batch files.
- psykiv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Wtf. I love notetab.
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -5/+7Ok, smarty pants, then why does MS not provide options to remove some of these low-budget knockoffs? Does MS think everyone is so stupid that they would delete these utilities by accident?
No, as everyone knows, MS uses its OS monopoly to infringe upon other markets. IE, WMP, Outlook, Search, Defender, etc. - tempusrob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Pretty sure you can run Kate on Win32 under Cygwin, but don't quote me on that.
- PunkHop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I've been looking for a nice GUI to replace Windows Explorer - anything to make my already-fast compy even faster.
What app do you rock, my diggas? - ggko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25) Ability to (easily) have more than one notepad document open at a time. If I hit ctrl-n, I want to create a new document, not replace the currently open one.
- ggko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2So they have two kludgey editors instead?
Oo a tangent... Is there some reason they have two separate editors, Notepad and Wordpad? Why not absorb the former into the latter? Not trying to make some fanboy comparison, but something like TextEdit on OSX. It's functional enough to be useful, (and pretty much all any non "power user" needs,) but not so feature packed that there isn't room for other editors out there. But the feature relevant to this sub-discussion, it has plain-text and rich-text modes. - xxdesmus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hi, I'm name is reality...clearly we've never met
- Gir53457, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's basically for programmers and not a real notepad replacement. Most people who work on computers already have some version of MS Word, even Mac users often use MS programs. The only reason I have to use notepad is to read the NFO file from a torrent or make a quick batch file.
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