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Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by downpunxx@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world

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It's still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.

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[–] cron@feddit.org 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

But tabs were a great addon. Also, it can finally handle linux line endings (\n). Thats the two things I miss when using old versions of notepad.

But a spell checker? Why?!

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Why?!

It's an opportunity to monitor the contents of the file, and your keystrokes.

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

also killing wordpad and putting features from that to notepad means one less program to maintain, less expenses

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 1 points 4 months ago

How does the math work out on that? Both are fairly mature, I don't believe that either application takes a considerable amount of development effort to maintain. And taking features from Wordpad and putting them into Notepad has a time and effort cost.

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