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Subject: 
Notetab
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Sun, 1 Apr 2007 22:28:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Tore Eriksson wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Ross Crawford wrote:
   I have been using it for at least 3 years, and I would also highly recommend it for Windows users.

ROSCO

And Notepad.exe is 56 kb.

Alright I’ll give that Notetab a chance.


/Tore

Ok, I replaced Notepad with Notetab, and it is surprisingly fast and in all ways better than MS Notepad. All ways - except one: I also replaced one single .exe file with 129 files in 7 new folders, 3.37 Mb using 5,4 million bytes of disk space! How many new registry entries... I just don’t want to know. MS Notepad is the opposite of Fatware, ie what I normally criticize MS for.

Anyway, that’s the price I pay for reading more kinds of linefeeds and being able to edit 64k+ text files. Plus I get 100’s of features I never asked for.

/Tore



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Notetab
 
(...) LOL Notepad creates at least one registry entry too (and I don't want to know how many more!) ROSCO (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)

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  Re: RACHAL Changeover
 
(...) And Notepad.exe is 56 kb. Yes, I know I exaggerated. I think I had NoteTab or something very similar in my previous Windows installation due to the 64k limitation in Notepad. And before that, I hacked Notepad to suggest the .dat extension in (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)

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