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

    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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    (XP) Nope can't get it to do that.
    I don't live here any more.

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    Doesn't do it for me either.
    I use Microsoft Visual Basic 2005. (Therefore, most code samples I provide will be based around the .NET Framework v2.0, unless otherwise specified)

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    ok, try this document.

    Open it up, place your cursor somewhere, and save it. Watch the cursor.
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    Originally posted by mendhak
    ok, try this document.

    Open it up, place your cursor somewhere, and save it. Watch the cursor.

    Nope...you are doing something wrong.....BTW are you on a laptop?

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    Originally posted by NoteMe
    Nope...you are doing something wrong.....BTW are you on a laptop?
    Yes, why? And what made you say that?

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    Becuase my HTML/PHP/MySQL teacher uses a laptop and a projector. Every time he tries to save a document he touches the touchpad, and he doesn't even notice it. And the cursour moves on the screen. Then he starts to type, and the document always gets screwed up.......

    ØØ

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    Originally posted by NoteMe
    Becuase my HTML/PHP/MySQL teacher uses a laptop and a projector. Every time he tries to save a document he touches the touchpad, and he doesn't even notice it. And the cursour moves on the screen. Then he starts to type, and the document always gets screwed up.......

    ØØ
    I'm pretty sure I'm not doing that... I have an external mouse.


    This happens at my work PC too

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    Does it jump like a frog...

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    I tried that file too and its OK on my PC at work (win2000).
    I don't live here any more.

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    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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    Ohhhh my god...now I see what you meen....I actually nearly moved....or that is it blinked....but I guess that is normal...something you not are at the moment...

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    notepad doesnt seem to be written by the brightest..

    open a large text file and do a replace all, replacing 'e' with 'r'

    see how it manually runs through the document making the changes lol

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    Originally posted by NoteMe
    Ohhhh my god...now I see what you meen....I actually nearly moved....or that is it blinked....but I guess that is normal...something you not are at the moment...

    WOO-****ING-HOO!!!!!!


    Finally!


    Ok, another one.

    In Windows XP, open up notepad, and click on "View". Note how the "status bar" option is grayed out? What on earth is that for anyways?

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    Originally posted by mendhak
    In Windows XP, open up notepad, and click on "View". Note how the "status bar" option is grayed out? What on earth is that for anyways?
    turn off word wrap

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    Originally posted by dis1411
    turn off word wrap
    OK, OK, but I'm right about the cursor thing.

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    Originally posted by mendhak
    OK, OK, but I'm right about the cursor thing.
    You are not right about anything. You are wrong about everything. And I am right about everything. So that meens that you never get a "driver license" for computers.....stop using them before you kill anyone with it...

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    mendhak , it's too late to say that this problem is a bug . The real bug is simply in your head .

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    Actually I think that frog = bug...


    End of discussion...

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    Download .Net Framework 2.0 with *NEW* run-time De-Frogger.
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    I just got the same oddity as you did......never seen it before...it IS a bug...

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    yeah it jumped back

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    i noticed an oddity, a reply email for a thread that's 10 months old

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    didn't move for me, on an XP laptop!

    what have you got against Notepad?

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    didnt realize that it was so old or I wouldnt have posted. I havent been on the forum in a while for some reason.

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    Originally posted by dis1411
    i noticed an oddity, a reply email for a thread that's 10 months old
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    no he's trying to annoy me, just me

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    Originally posted by dis1411
    i noticed an oddity, a reply email for a thread that's 10 months old

    Well, I didn't get the odity when I tryed back then. But I am writing in Notepad now, and I got it, and just wanted to tell Mendhak that he is not the one that is nuts here...

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    You mean I'm not the only one who's nuts here.

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    Originally posted by dglienna
    didn't move for me, on an XP laptop!

    what have you got against Notepad?
    We're talking about notepad.exe, not the other one.

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

    Who cares about the cursor jumping back anyway
    If you dribble then you are as mad as me

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

    Those of us who write HTML or ASP or other similar text-intensive activities in notepad.

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

    Boring sods
    If you dribble then you are as mad as me

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

    what is the other one? aren't they the same?

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

    WordPad???
    If you dribble then you are as mad as me

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

    that would be the third one, i suppose.

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

    What are you waffling on about
    If you dribble then you are as mad as me

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

    the three editors that I know about are notepad, wordpad, and edit
    nothing about a different one - notepad.exe it's the same as notepad.

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

    NotePad = Laptop?????

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