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Neon5
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Apr 04, 2022

Windows 11 Notepad bugs

I am experiencing multiple issuse with Notepad on Windows 11:   - When editing a text of more than 10 lines that ends with an empty line, it is impossible to click onto the last text line. The curs...
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Reza_Ameri
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Apr 04, 2022
You may open start and search for feedback and open the Feedback Hub app and report these issues. The Feedback Hub app is the best channel to report bugs and problem and also request for new features.
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Neon5
Brass Contributor
Apr 12, 2022
Thanks for your advice. I have sent a Feedback Hub report, and now installed Notepad++ which is mentioned in that Devblog post. That will replace both Windows Notepad (after 20 years of usage) and UltraEdit 10 (after 10 years) for me.
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    Bart76
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    Aug 21, 2022

    Neon5

     

    I encountered issues with Notepad in Windows 11 as well. In contrast to earlier Windows-versions, some annoying bugs were fixed in Notepad in Windows 11. But on the other hand, it seems to have received several new (and even more annoying) bugs in return...

     

    In my case, it had to do with inserting a special character using the ALT key and the numeric keypad. Inserting a character that way seems to work fine at first. But a second attempt fails with a "garbage" character and subsequent attempts fail completely as if that functionality is blocked. Copying the text in the clipboard, restarting Notepad and pasting the text back from the clipboard seems to be the only "workaround" here.

     

    IMHO, abandoning Notepad and switching to an external text editor seems to be the most effective practical solution. As I see it, Microsoft lately seems to become overwhelmed with these kinds of bugs, resulting in fix times of several months or even years (if such bugs get fixed correctly at all), so I personally have no hopes there.

     

    Until shortly, I was only "slightly" annoyed by trivial new bugs introduced in new updates of complex applications like Visual Studio (not VS Code, but the classic multi-gigabyte full development environment). But now it seems that such trivial bugs also find their way in simple applications like Notepad. With this development, I'm starting to worry more and more about the current and future quality of Microsoft products.

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    Reza_Ameri
    Silver Contributor
    Apr 13, 2022
    Thank you for sharing feedback.
    In case you are a software developer , you may try Visual Studio Code too.
    Take a look at:
    https://code.visualstudio.com/

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