dantheclamman to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agoMicrosoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 yearswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square473fedilinkarrow-up11.11Kcross-posted to: sysadmin@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnology@lemmit.onlinehackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.partytech@pawb.social
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minus-square@ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish38•10 months agoHow do people use Wordpad for coding? I’ve never seen that done. If I ever open code in an editor with a “bold” button, I screwed up and close without saving.
minus-square@senoro@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish14•10 months agoHe must be thinking of notepad. Which I mean, I would not choose to code in Notepad but I wouldn’t actively avoid it like I would wordpad.
minus-squareelraclinkfedilink7•10 months agoThe “my IDE didn’t recognize the file type and opened it in here by default” editor.
minus-square@danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish4•10 months agoWordPad was often used if a file was too big for Notepad, over 64 KB. But now there are better options.
How do people use Wordpad for coding? I’ve never seen that done. If I ever open code in an editor with a “bold” button, I screwed up and close without saving.
He must be thinking of notepad. Which I mean, I would not choose to code in Notepad but I wouldn’t actively avoid it like I would wordpad.
It’s the “I got to change 1 of code” editor.
The “my IDE didn’t recognize the file type and opened it in here by default” editor.
WordPad was often used if a file was too big for Notepad, over 64 KB. But now there are better options.