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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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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wordpad was getting no usage. They offer Word for free as a web app and PWA if you want it.

It’s ok to retire a product that has no reason to exist and focus on a single app like notepad.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 4 months ago

Notepad was getting usage, even if Word was installed, specifically because Notepad doesn't have all the bullshit needed for a word processor. It is a text editor. It is for editing text files. Text files that probably contain machine-readable program configuration data with arguments that are now going to be flagged by spellcheck, and probably changed by autocorrect from the term the program is expecting to something that it can't understand.

The people who use notepad need it to not have these "features". These "features" make wordpad less useful for the people who use it.