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

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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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