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Comment by BobbyTables2 | Hacker News Reader

Worse than CoPilot is the new Notepad.

Can close the program without saving the file, open it again and it is still there! WTF?

This is the default behavior of Notepad++, and is quite useful.

There are times I want a scratch file to stick around without saving it to disk (I know it's still saved to disk somewhere, but that's not the point).

The answer is to close the file you don't want to stick around.

> This is the default behavior

Also for MacOS TextEdit and Preview (can edit images a bit).

It's convenient, I just have to pre-save the original on case I'm experimenting and not versioning.

Sublime Text and VS Code both do the same thing. I can imagine that it takes a bit to get used to, assuming that you'd even want to, but I've found it to be very handy: At this point in time 6 unsaved text documents open in Sublime Text, covering a variety of subjects that I haven't quite finished working on, or that I just want to remember for later

IMO, that is encouraging a very bad habit.

How so? None of this would more than mildly inconvenience me if it were lost. Important notes/files are of course saved in appropriate locations, but a lot things aren't that important

If you get used to it for some cases, it becomes harder to remember in instances that do not autosave!

Just my opinion though.

The default editor in Ubuntu, presumably just the default gnome text editor, is the same. I struggled to get rid of a scratchpad of notes once. Really weird and unexpected and I'm sure it gets people in trouble occasionally.

That's why my go-to way of closing that editor has become Ctrl+W+Q (add more W if more than one tab is open in the editor).

I do the same in Sublime and VScode. I believe both ask you to save when exiting, but in a forced exit or reboot both restore the complete session including unsaved files and unsaved edits.

My work laptop as 64 gigs of RAM and the latest processor. It is admittedly the most high-spec work laptop I have ever used. Unfortunately it has Windows 11, which means it runs slower than a crappy Windows XP laptop from 2005.

Surprisingly, I’ve figured my Windows 2000 ThinkPad with Word 2000 does 90% of what I need (apart from docx and live sharing) and does it noticably faster than my Windows 11 ThinkPad with Word 2024.

It's not that long ago that there was all the hullabaloo about Notepad being updated for the first time in years, to support Unix line endings. Now it has been replaced wholesale with a slow app that crashes.

It's so weird that Notepad has been enshittified with AI and Bing search (!) but they haven't bothered updating WordPad.

FWIW, I like that a lot in my text editors.

Even more basic than that, it has some bizarre behavior regarding selections: pressing Shift+End selects to the end of line including the EOL, such that pressing Backspace will then splice the line. No other text editor I've used does this, and it's annoying.

I've uninstalled new Notepad and switched to a third party app for this reason. The point of notepad.exe is it's the same thing as ever was.

This is the default for modern Mac apps since several years. So I guess it’s Microsoft catching up to this new norm?

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