top | item 46972429 (no title) tosti | 18 days ago This was already better when the latest from MS was still called "* XP":https://liquidninja.com/metapad/ discuss order hn newest xnorswap|18 days ago Wow that's a hit of nostalgia, I'd completely forgotten about metapad, but I loved it back in the day.And it's hard to believe now, but yes, support for Ctrl+S to save file was a notable feature because notepad itself didn't support that back then. barosl|18 days ago Oh wow, yes I remember now, I used to type `Alt+F` and then `S` immediately because Notepad didn't support `Ctrl+S` back then. Thanks for giving me nostalgia! load replies (2) crummy|18 days ago I used to overwrite c:\windows\notepad.exe with Metapad. At some point Windows security made this a pain though!
xnorswap|18 days ago Wow that's a hit of nostalgia, I'd completely forgotten about metapad, but I loved it back in the day.And it's hard to believe now, but yes, support for Ctrl+S to save file was a notable feature because notepad itself didn't support that back then. barosl|18 days ago Oh wow, yes I remember now, I used to type `Alt+F` and then `S` immediately because Notepad didn't support `Ctrl+S` back then. Thanks for giving me nostalgia! load replies (2)
barosl|18 days ago Oh wow, yes I remember now, I used to type `Alt+F` and then `S` immediately because Notepad didn't support `Ctrl+S` back then. Thanks for giving me nostalgia! load replies (2)
crummy|18 days ago I used to overwrite c:\windows\notepad.exe with Metapad. At some point Windows security made this a pain though!
xnorswap|18 days ago
And it's hard to believe now, but yes, support for Ctrl+S to save file was a notable feature because notepad itself didn't support that back then.
barosl|18 days ago
crummy|18 days ago