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Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025, D wrote:

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:51:19 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver
<bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:

After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to
Notepad
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for text editing, these freewares work superbly:

libre office https://libreoffice.org notetab lite
https://notetab.com/notetab-light ted notepad
https://jsimlo.sk/notepad

Emacs can be run on Windows too.

And I've used it for over ten years, which made me even enjoy Windows.
I had to bring together a lot of programs, though. For instance, when
you load ESHELL, you still need various UNIX programs to be comfortable
such as find, cat and so on. Sure, ESHELL provides many replacements
with built-in Lisp procedures, but not everything.
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025, D wrote:

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:51:19 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver
<bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:

After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

[...]

Ahhh... wonderful news! Microsoft becoming more and more irrelevant
for the desktop every year.

I'm convinced they will eventually make windows free with
surveillance, since no one will want to pay for the crap eventually.

With android, chromebooks, linux, ipads, mac os there's plenty of way
better options out there. I feel as if Microsoft, due to its cloud
focus, is slowly losing their grip on the desktop market! =D

It does feel that way.
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On 2025-02-26, Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote or quoted:

If you want full access to Notepad, Microsoft now requires users to
pay

I've always grokked "Notepad" as bare-bones software that just
has the rock-bottom essentials to qualify as a text editor.

IIRC the original (Win 3 or earlier) "notepad" was little more than one of the sample programs in their SDK - a simple edit control with a menu and save/load. In the earlier versions this limited the size of the file it could edit to 32K.

Tend to use Notepad++ when I have to do anything on Windows these days, though that's getting a bit too smart for my liking.

vi and emacs ftw. (Yes, I use both :)
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Ian

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Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:

And I've used it for over ten years, which made me even enjoy Windows.
I had to bring together a lot of programs, though. For instance, when
you load ESHELL, you still need various UNIX programs to be comfortable
such as find, cat and so on.

I think enjoying Windows is taking it a little too far. But I do enjoy
Emacs, even in Windows, especially since I discovered ORG mode.

For installing Emacs on Windows, in my opinion it's best done now from
MSYS2. They even say this on https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#nonfree

"MSYS2 users can install Emacs (64bits build) with the following:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs"

So MSYS2 first for all the command line tools and others. The Konsole
terminal is also now available via MSYS2.
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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> writes:

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:

And I've used it for over ten years, which made me even enjoy Windows.
I had to bring together a lot of programs, though. For instance, when
you load ESHELL, you still need various UNIX programs to be comfortable
such as find, cat and so on.

I think enjoying Windows is taking it a little too far. But I do enjoy
Emacs, even in Windows, especially since I discovered ORG mode.

For installing Emacs on Windows, in my opinion it's best done now from
MSYS2. They even say this on https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#nonfree

"MSYS2 users can install Emacs (64bits build) with the following:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs"

So MSYS2 first for all the command line tools and others. The Konsole terminal is also now available via MSYS2.

I second that. Funny---Windows must behave like UNIX so that we can use
it. :)
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:56:59 +0000, Richmond wrote:

Emacs can be run on Windows too.

Maybe not “run” on Windows, maybe more like “walk”.

Maybe not “walk”, maybe more like “limp” on Windows.

Maybe not “limp”, maybe more like “stumble” on Dimdows.

Maybe not “stumble”, more like “fall down and have difficulty getting up again” ...
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 05:42 this Sunday (GMT):

On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:56:59 +0000, Richmond wrote:

Emacs can be run on Windows too.

Maybe not “run” on Windows, maybe more like “walk”.

Maybe not “walk”, maybe more like “limp” on Windows.

Maybe not “limp”, maybe more like “stumble” on Dimdows.

Maybe not “stumble”, more like “fall down and have difficulty getting up
again” ...

There's always WSL, I guess.
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Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> wrote at 20:15 this Wednesday (GMT):

Wine comes with a notepad app called Wine Notepad. Perhaps it would run
on Windows?

Oh, that's different from the "real" notepad? I thought it just copied
the exe.
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