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After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] Stern@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

i use notepad to save shitty ascii art in .txt format. if i wanted autocorrect and spellchecking i have like 500 apps i can use.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

That's nice of them. Does it have ads yet?

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Boo, keep is simple and basic.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Ugh... Way to ruin the best IDE on Windows.

[-] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Maybe it’s just me, but I have no desire for autocorrect on the computer. I want the letters I type to be exactly the letters that are entered, and I’m perfectly capable of typing words on a full sized keyboard. It makes sense for a phone where the keyboard is small and you can’t feel the keys.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Man, I'm dyslexic and a writer, so I thought that autocorrect would be really useful.

So, there's an autocorrect available on Linux, and it does work.

But it is way more of a pain in the ass than a help. With an on screen keyboard, doing swipe typing, I don't need autocorrect because I have the qwerty layout memorized, and can just make the patterns that make the words, and screwups are rare enough I don't care. So I keep it off.

But dealing with it on pc? I really thought it would help, but it's in the way. It made things harder to process. I make less mistakes that need correcting just typing in my semi-huntnpeck way via keyboard than having the program interfering.

Like, I'm the perfect use case for autocorrect, and it isn't worth a damn.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

It's an optional feature, so no harm having it.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago

You are correct. No-one makes mistakes on full size keyboards.

[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

This is outrageous, I'm switching to Linux. Arch, in case you were wondering.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Have they added syntax highlighting yet? Every time I use it I'm amazed that it's like the only text editor without syntax highlighting I know about

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Apple's built-in TextEdit is more fully-featured than Notepad but doesn't have syntax highlighting.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Still amazed that Microsoft Word can't handle blocks of source code - that's supposed to be the full-featured one...

[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Luckily I run an old version of notepad under wine

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

“It looks like youʼre copying text from a copyrighted source. Would you like me to get a quote from the Microsoft Store for a license?”

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

Better late than never, I guess.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Does it even have IA?

[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 10 points 4 months ago

no, iowa is not included in notepad.

[-] Kit 1 points 4 months ago

I thought they were retiring Wordpad?

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It’s not just system wide yet? What?

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