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Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Reject modern GUI text editors, embrace Vim

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I've been using for the last 2 years becuase I don't know how to exit it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Hopefully you find a way out........please let me know if you have found a way out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You mean "Esc Esc Del Esc Ctrl-C Ctrl-C Ctrl-X Ctrl-Q Esc Esc F11 Ctrl-Z Del Del Del Del F11 F12 F2 Backspace Esc Esc fn0wosnfosjvopakgnapociwbsopalfnnqod9gjbqnspfojwbab9fiehjr "

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Nah that's emacs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I legitimately loled, we've all been there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Emacs is a fine operating system, lacking only a good text editor.

Edit: For the record, I code in emacs every day at work. (Please send help.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh I definitely agree - and highly recommend checking out doom emacs to solve that. It's emacs configured to use vim keybinds instead (and other QOL features). It adds a bit less than 200 add-ons by default, but they're only loaded as needed so startup time is still <1 second

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Eh, I’ve got so many keybindings and scripts and changes already and I actually quite like my setup. Not looking to learn vim keybindings beyond the ones I know (essentially how to close vim 😁).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago