[GuB-42]

Ironic how Notepad used to be too simple, making it useless as a text editor in many cases. In particular, it didn't support UNIX line endings and files larger than a few MB.

The there was a brief moment where it became decent. Still a barebones text editor, but it could actually edit text, what I think most people expected Notepad to be.

And now, it is going the other way, with "AI" features no one wanted, and also "Markdown support" which is ironic since Markdown is designed to look good in a regular text editor. Now we have something that isn't really a text editor, but not really a wysiwyg editor either, it has some advanced features like AI, but is lacking features most other semi-advanced text editors have (ex: syntax highlighting).

At least, it was good for a couple of years.

[orthoxerox]

Yeah, Notepad was originally nothing more than a Win32 multiline textbox and two functions, one of which read the file and set the textbox value to the contents and the other took the textbox value and wrote it to the file. Every other menu option simply changed some existing property of the textbox.

[barrkel]

Don't forget the .LOG feature.

[coffeebeqn]

The “notepad team” has fully embraced resume driven development.

Isn’t it boring when a piece of software is just complete? In fact that’s an unacceptable state for it!

[gtk40]

I haven't used Windows in years. I remember needing to use WordPad to even open a Unix line ending file, even though it was counter-intuitive.