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NXTwoThou
Feb 09, 2022Iron Contributor
Notepad 11.2112.32.0 completely buggy
Anyone know the release schedule for notepad updates? This latest update(11.2112.32.0) is unusable. Find+replace trashes files. https://aka.ms/AAfogw8 Notice the Ln/Col at t...
NXTwoThou
Apr 25, 2022Iron Contributor
I'm still maintaining some Server 2016 instances and use notepad a lot. It's actively frustrating when I need to use it on my Windows 11 machine. It's like no one dogfoods their own products at MS anymore. The new notepad is just barely usable. They did eventually get the find/replace where it didn't trash files. But the whole moving everything down several lines is so visually jarring and inconsistent patterns of setting focus highlighting the line. It's very sad that such a basic tool is so crippled now. I can't even say it's for aesthetics due to the jumping lines down craziness. Note, uninstalling puts you back to the "new"(but not new-new) notepad, where you have like a 127 character limit on find/replace.
ClaytonMacleod
Apr 26, 2022Copper Contributor
NXTwoThou It's still doing the find/replace butchering here. I just started using Notepad++ instead. I honestly don't know why they would even bother touching this code anymore. It worked. It's just a simple text editor. Shouldn't ever have to touch the code. Changing for the sake of change is ridiculous. I thought the Ribbon-style Alt key problem was bad enough in Win11, and then notepad started wrecking huge batch files I was working for hours and hours on. Ctrl-H, type-type-type, Alt-A, Alt-F4, Enter to save, double-click newly saved file. "Nah, that's broken, bro." wtf? Edit. WHOA! Where's all my batch code?!?!?! Grrrrr!