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Didn't Emacs come out of MIT's AI Lab?

The irony is delightful.

Was in the middle of writing something like this comment already. Heh, definitely something a bit ironic seeing multiple comments claiming an editor written in Lisp and descended from an AI lab as being ai-free. It's probably one of the most user-customizable environments around for building user-centric AI tool integrations.

Maybe people mean GenAI. Back then, AI meant stuff like computer algebra systems like Macsyma which produce deterministic, provably correct results. I'm totally OK with that kind of AI. What I don't like are probabilistic text generators getting shoved into absolutely everything.

Oh, they really did add Copilot to Notepad... :')

notepad++ that i run doesn't have any features like that. I can't even get "run" to work. But vertical selection + search and replace are top notch, and it loads large files fast, even with control characters.

Even when i was running linux and windows side by side i did all my text editing in windows, notepad++ is just that fine tuned. even BBEdit wasn't as nice.

I rarely upgrade software that "works", so i have no idea if notepad++ has gotten worse.

"Yes, Emacs! Strange visitor from another subculture with powers and abilities far beyond those of plain-text code editors!"