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Comment by charcircuit

19 days ago

>After all, Notepad is supposed to be the absolute barebones, most ultra-basic app in the entire OS.

When was that ever the case? It's not even the most basic editor on Windows, which would be Edit.

https://github.com/microsoft/edit

Edit has not shipped with Windows since Win9x -- which is to say, it hasn't shipped since Windows required DOS -- and what you linked is an homage project, not the same program.

And you know what else was included in versions of MS-DOS that shipped with Win9x? Edlin. The editor so basic most people can't figure out how to use it.

  • Edit, what I linked, is shipping with Windows right now. This HN thread is about the current version of Windows. We are not talking about Windows XP.