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

[techgnome]

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

Tg

[BodwadUK]

Notepad is the windows program

[dglienna]

as is wordpad

[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?

[iPrank]

w00t?

[grilkip]

w00t?

w00t!

[litlewiki]

why all that fuss

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.

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!!

[NoteMe]

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

[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 !!

[penagate]

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?

Do you not read the comments in Digg articles.

[NoteMe]

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

[NoteMe]

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 !!

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

[litlewiki]

okay.. i dint grow up with emacs

[NoteMe]

Me neither...

[iPrank]

I grew up with Edlin.

[mendhak]

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.

[iPrank]

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

[user1238]

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.

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

[dclamp]

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

[Lord Orwell]

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.

[dee-u]

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)

Arrgggghhhh... Its definitely true!

[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.

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.

Nope, not here. Works just fine.

[dee-u]

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.

I didn't try it with a laptop.

[storm5510]

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.

[JuggaloBrotha]

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

[storm5510]

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?

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!