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Perhaps similar to Notepad, which has been more or less feature-complete since Windows 2000 or so. I guess it is also internally "deprecated", but will continue to be shipped for quite a while. Microsoft doesn't tend to break such things. In Paint's case, I'd guess the most that will happen is that it will vanish from the Start menu, but the executable will still be there.

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Notepad needs support for unix style line endings to be able to function as a basic text editor. As it stands I always install notepad++.

Notepad++ is pretty good, I've used it, both for programming and general text editing.

See my comment about Metapad in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840791

It supports both Unix and DOS/Windows line endings (LF and CR+LF). Also a few other options.

"Find" in Notepad does not wrap around to the start of the document, and has no option to do so, so in order to search the whole document you have to put the cursor at the start. That's bone-headed behavior and should've been fixed a decade ago.

"in order to search the whole document you have to put the cursor at the start" Yep, but we all know to do this. Better to keep it with this quirk, than remove this indispensable software. Notepad and Paint are so simple and work fine, long may they remain.

Hmmm... I had no idea. I think I've run into that bug many times without knowing. I would still rather they don't touch it than start adding features, because we know the first thing they'd add is the ribbon which has no business being on a text editor with 4 options.

Hahaha! That was funny. True Indeed that's the first thing they want to add.

Also no drag-and-drop

Feature, not a bug, imho. I don't know about other folks, but I've used drag-and-drop accidentally and had to undo it many many more times than I've used it deliberately.

if we're going to pick on a standard UI thing that it fails at, I'd say multiple undo.

Actually I think Notepad got updated recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/6lpj7j/weve_rele...

> This update should not require you to have to reboot unless you happen to have Notepad.exe open. This update only revs the version of the OS and includes a updated binary version of Notepad.exe and nothing else.

Will Paint live as long as edlin?

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