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- d4vide, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44Well, just try to open Notepad and press F5.
:-)) - pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43Apparently it doesn't work correctly in Windows 3.0... =|
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/81067/en-us
Maybe there's a hotfix. - InternetUser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Press F5 in notepad to insert the same data.
- dgaspard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30I find it funny, with all the complex programs requiring 100's of megs of ram, web services and will do everything you need after the latest add-ons. I use notepad almost everyday.
- Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30I use Notepad.
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Microsoft still has info on 3.0?~
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -10/+26But why get another text editor when you have notepad?
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20covertspartan wrote: ""who knew?" It's been around for as long as there has BEEN a notepad.... is this really news worthy?"
Yeah! Take that load of sensationalism called gravity. It's been around *forever*, but one guy fiinally finds it and suddenly people are talking about it for centuries. I mean, what kind of crap is that?! - 955701, on 10/12/2007, -16/+31And yet it won't handle unix end of lines correctly. Go Figure.
- zone, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19It actually works! (XP SP2)
- vibri2001, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14even without adding the .LOG in the first line you can add a timestamp by hitting F5. Neat feature, not quite sure how I would use it though. Someone beat me to it.
- eosp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15eosp@karhu:~ $ wine /mnt/hdb1/WINDOWS/notepad.exe
- hchaudh1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Actually I find TextPad has tons more feature and functionality than notepad. Even for programming or foreign languages. A really nice interface and regular expressions too.
- macross9321, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11notepad I still say to this day it's the best Program MS ever made - it's not bloatware it never needed to be pathed a millions times
if you knew what your doing to can create web sites and other programs with it - diggdat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I use notepad as a basic text editor daily because it loads fast and is available, system to system. I appreciate this tip and dugg the story.
Posting gripes about the story being posted, is the basic privilege of any digg user. I do not understand, however, why people bother. This story was well described by title and description and was obviously dugg by enough people to make it to the front page.
Comments, you would think, would be based on the content, thereafter.
If you do not digg it, then don't digg it, and move on... - pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Actually, it works in both XP and Vista; I tried them both.
- pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Yea, why blog when you can use Notepad?
- mikedoth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8With a full featured text editing program I'm wondering why I ever moved to Notepad++
- duck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Look under EDIT and you'll see 'Time/Date F5'
After all of these years I never noticed it. - pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Both the .LOG trick and F5 work in XP and Vista.
- kimos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Since every techie reads all the help files... :P
- chandrasonic, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14"Who knew?" Well, not me. Useful tip, I guess. Thanks.
- Equistatic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Where can I get this MACbok you speak of?
- ochimaru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6True, it's not news to you... but for those people who didn't know about it... it's news to them! And it DOES bring up an important question about if the log function is an accessible API. Why why why did you take the time to read the digg & comment on it if you didn't care? Thank you, to whoever posted this. You learn something new everyday.
- grawity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Or textpad creators liked this feature and added to their program.
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9I use Textpad for programming. The colorized markings help a lot. I find that I will sometimes forget to close a quotation and the code coloring helps to avoid errors like this. I also find navigation within the files easier.
With that said, I use notepad on a daily basis as well. If i'm just putting together a link to rip a video off of apple's trailer site, or somthing similar notepad opens fast and works fine.
^^hehe, hchaudh1 beat me by a few seconds... - pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Undoubtedly old, but convenient how it puts your cursor at the end of the file.
- fani, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Where ? where ? ... oh, its just you.
- Novagenesis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wow..comment buried because it's shell specific? I'm sorry, but it's trivial to make a script that'll do that in either linux or windows. I personally don't much like the idea of -having- to start the file with .LOG, either..
eh. - DrRo183, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Notepad is the best! What other program has a help menu that's readable in 10 minutes?
On a more serious note, I used notepad++ for coding. Now I just use whatever comes packaged with the development software. It's good enough, and standard. Unless I'm working in a UNIX/Linux environment, where I'd use VI(m) or EMACS. - BillyEveryteen, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Notepad. Now with more angst.
- olliholliday, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6yet here it is with 530 diggs and 80 comments - i'm not sure you belong on digg.
- Clemenceau, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Neat-o. Now I'll use it not only for making webpages, but a journal as well.
- achew22, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7F5 and the .log thing work for me on XP SP2
- buss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I use Edit+ instead of notepad. I don't like notepad because it doesn't have syntax highlighting. Its only a couple megs, and you never really _have_ to buy it, it will work forever if you just click "continue." http://editplus.com if you want to try it out. I've been using it for 6 years now.
- Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There's no need for name calling...
- zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Newsworthy maybe not, tip worthy yea, I didn't know for one so thanks.
If you read the post title you'd know what it was and as you already knew then why bother commenting. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3NIce.
I use Notepad constantly, but I never knew either of these tricks.
It's so much easier to open a quick Notepad document than it is to wait for Word to launch, or fuss your way through a hundred menus and features in some other program. - albel65, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4.LOG
4:24 PM 7/7/2006
Dear Diary, Mood: Apathetic...
unxunxunx - dolson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@eosp - Try just 'notepad' and it should work (at least it does in Ubuntu). Same with 'regedit'.
Anyhow, I remember this "trick" from Windows 95. - jerbaker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Too bad that once your log file is longer than 32kb the trick no longer works and you just get a memory error message when you open the file. You have to love the genius at MS that thought no log file could ever grow beyond 32k.
- Karsh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I use Notepad too, especially when I just need to type down a quick idea. Set it as a keyboard shortcut, then call it when you need it.
- hurfydurfur, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Complexity. That wouldn't work in tcsh, so now you have to specify what shell to use (bash, ksh, zsh would work). Complexity vs F5 or .LOG at the top of the file.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Well, just try to open Notepad and press F5."
Well, F5 isn't even a hidden feature like this (it's an Edit menu shortcut), and it doesn't work the same either. - airship, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I use Notepad2, and it doesn't recognize '.LOG'. Florian Balmer (the developer) says it's on the 'requested features' list, but he probably won't add it.
However, Ctrl+F5 gives time and date (12:35 PM 7/7/2006). Ctrl+Shift+F5 gives time and date in long format (12:35 PM Friday, July 07, 2006). Good to know. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Because we all need a seismograph.
/end sarcasm - ephemerae, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4@hypnotiq: "And if you do, you should already know about this."
Not if you actually use a real text editor. *smirk* - grawity, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5You make webpages with Notepad??? Go find something like notepad2
- r121, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Linux editors handle CRLF just fine.
- hypnotiq, on 10/12/2007, -10/+11For anyone who works with log files frequently, this is old news of course
For anyone who doesn't work with log files frequently, this is news, or interesting at worst. But then again, this is also POINTLESS for people who don't use log files. Seriously, what do you care if you don't use logs? And if you do, you should already know about this. -
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