this is the second or third article i've seen where someone supposedly fixes dumb ai things by checks notes using ai to do it.
this is an ad.
No.
Just use Notepad++ instead?
I've been using TextEditor.app on OSX to quickly open it and jot down something during meetings, etc. until Apple put in cloud into it and you needed to first choose the name and the path of the file where you wanted to store it.
This is when I decided to write TextEd.app which would only do what the previous app did, open a new window with a textarea and only when you wanted to save it it would ask you for the path and name. I even removed the RDT functionality and it would be just plain text without anything.
Have they removed the option to disable the alias and bring back the old notepad.exe?
It’s still there, but turning it off still won’t let you associate txt files with the old notepad.
Simply uninstalling the app works fine though, then it defaults to the old one.
There are plenty of good FOSS text editors out there. I certainly don't want to use one that was barfed up by an AI.
This is the guy that wrote Task Manager for Windows back in the day. Hes an old Microsoft Windows developer. So even if he used AI id be interested in seeing what he made.
This is ALSO a guy behind many of those ”your PC is at risk” scams back in the day, selling useless optimization tools that extorted money from victims. He specifically quit Microsoft to pursue that and was even convicted later. Still chooses to downplay and try to hide what he did.
“I want to start with a blank slate”
There’s a setting for that.
“I don’t want tabs”
This one’s trickier: there’s only a setting to open existing files in a new window; you’ll still have tabs.
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