The Notepad Save oddity [It's a bug!!]

I get this all the time in Wordpad.... notably when I'm trying to work with a CSS file or an HTML file.

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Notepad is the windows program :)

as is wordpad

I just broke notepad...try this:


1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor)
2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break"
3. Save the file to your hard drive.
4. Close Notepad
5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.

w00t?

w00t? ;)

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Originally Posted by NoteMe

w00t?

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w00t!

why all that fuss

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I just broke notepad...try this:


1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor)
2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break"
3. Save the file to your hard drive.
4. Close Notepad
5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.

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i use notepad++. here's the link http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
no installation ,hassles free .it opens every possible programming language file!!

Who cares about notepad++. Notepad it self opens every programming language. What kind of argument is that...:)

well just try it out ,you will love it .the one thing i like abt np++ is that it has syntax highlighting and that really helps and also it doesnt have bugs like the one u mentioned !!

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Originally Posted by NoteMe

I just broke notepad...try this:


1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor)
2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break"
3. Save the file to your hard drive.
4. Close Notepad
5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.

w00t?

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Do you not read the comments in Digg articles.

Sure I do, but that was today. They where not there yesterday..:)

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Originally Posted by litlewiki

well just try it out ,you will love it .the one thing i like abt np++ is that it has syntax highlighting and that really helps and also it doesnt have bugs like the one u mentioned !!

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Errr...yeah, that would have helped...Emacs has all the syntax highlighting I need..:)

okay.. i dint grow up with emacs ;)

Me neither...;)

I grew up with Edlin. :)

I have Visual Studio. I don't need syntax highlighting in some other program, unless it's for PHP.

But then there's that addin for VS.

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/ind...try_id=1502576
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archiv...14/631016.aspx

I fixed mine by Turning off "word wrap" in the Format menu. Then u can also enable the status bar that shows the numerical coordinates of the cursor. kinda like a built-in game of orienteering in windows.

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Originally Posted by mendhak

When saving something in notepad sometimes, does the cursor jump back a few characters? (This happens generally in XP, and sometimes in 2000)

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This thread is just about 3 years old... no need to reply.

write = wordpad.

There's what i consider a bug in word and in fact riched32.dll, which it uses.

change the properties of any letter in a word (say for example, bold the "o" in orwell. if you are cursoring through a word, it shows the properties of the letter behind the cursor instead of in front of it. Very counter-intuitive.

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Originally Posted by mendhak

OK, OK

One last shot at this:

Open up notepad, and save it somewhere.
Type sdlkfjsadlfk, and copy it. Then start pasting it, paste it several times. Just press Ctrl+V, and hold it for a couple seconds.
Now, Click File>Save, and watch the cursor carefully.


Well?

(crosses fingers)

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Arrgggghhhh... Its definitely true! :D

I would be looking at the touchpad as the cause. I had a laptop with this and it was a pain in the a** for causing strange things to happen. I started using a little portable wireless mouse and that solved the problem.

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Open up notepad, and save it somewhere.
Type sdlkfjsadlfk, and copy it. Then start pasting it, paste it several times. Just press Ctrl+V, and hold it for a couple seconds.
Now, Click File>Save, and watch the cursor carefully.

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Nope, not here. Works just fine.

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Originally Posted by storm5510

I would be looking at the touchpad as the cause. I had a laptop with this and it was a pain in the a** for causing strange things to happen. I started using a little portable wireless mouse and that solved the problem.


Nope, not here. Works just fine.

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I didn't try it with a laptop.

I didn't mention, I use a desktop. I've always found Notepad quite reliable. It used to not handle large text files very well, and would suggest using Wordpad instead. The current variant doesn't do that. I admit, it doesn't do much. It doesn't need to.

I'm simple, I use TextPad instead of Notepad, it does what I need it to.

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Originally Posted by NoteMe

I just broke notepad...try this:


1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor)
2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break"
3. Save the file to your hard drive.
4. Close Notepad
5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.

w00t?

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I got a weird result from this. It came back up as control characters of some type (little squares). I looked at it with a hex editor, and it seems to be text. No extra characters on either end.

Strange!

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