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Notepad Replacement

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Omar Shahine links to a notepad replacement, including instructions for bypassing System File Protection to replace the notepad.exe binary. As a hardcore emacs user I've never bothered to replace notepad, but this would be very useful on test machines or other situations where emacs isn't readily available. I like how it has syntax highlighting for not only common languages, but also files such as .ini and .reg. It's amazing how many text editors don't support (i.e. have syntax highlighting and/or other mode-specific features for) types of files that programmers, administrators, and advanced users encounter on a daily basis. Yet another reason I've stuck with emacs.

Simon comments:

I've been using notepad2 since you mentioned it before... It would be great if Microsoft could assimilate it and its author, or at least incorporated something very similar in Longhorn.
Would save having to replace notepad with one file or another everywhere I go.

Right on. Paint and Calculator are also utilities that seriously need to be updated for Longhorn, and Notepad2 is a good illustration of the types and level of improvements needed.

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  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2004
    Agreed. It still could use one basic requirement for every editor. If I somehow happen to load a Big File, it should either ask if I want that or it could do the Right Thing and open the file in in-place edit mode with read-only enabled. Current behaviour for most editors seems to be just load the file, even if it takes minutes for a 200 MB file on a 3 GHz HT machine.
  • Anonymous
    July 28, 2004
    In XP SP2 it seems like the normal ways to replace notepad.exe with some other file fails. Has anyone been able to replace notepad.exe with notepad2.exe on XP SP2 RC2?
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