Comment by arghwhat
1 year ago
That just feels like scope creep. Notepad would also be neat with some better keybinding support, plugins, lsp, ... - but then it wouldn't be notepad, and theres countless not notepads out there.
Tools like nano (well, pico) exist to provide a reliable and always available minimum feature set. If you expand it, then you end up with something that is neither the minimum nor capable enough to sensibly compete with fully fledged alternatives.
Well, Notepad is introducing AI support which already feels like scope creep to me…
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enhance-your-wri...
They already introduced it. It's been there for some months.
... Yikes.
No, it would still be notepad, but a higher quality one where especially users who don’t know better wouldn’t have to suffer as much from bad/lacking functionality
There are already: Notepad3 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad3/) or metapad (https://liquidninja.com/metapad/).
But they aren't part of Windows, so "users who don’t know better" continue to suffer!
More features ≠ higher quality.
But lack of useful features = lower quality, so you're just arguing for a permanent state of poor quality for some strange change-resisting reason and the fact that alternatives exist (so? why should that stop your alternative from becoming better?)
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