Microsoft Is Getting Rid Of WordPad After 28 Years - The Veteran Editor Has Been Present In The OS Since Windows 95 - Gadget Tendency
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Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Emacs is a fine operating system, lacking only a good text editor.

    Edit: For the record, I code in emacs every day at work. (Please send help.)

    • finestnothing@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Oh I definitely agree - and highly recommend checking out doom emacs to solve that. It’s emacs configured to use vim keybinds instead (and other QOL features). It adds a bit less than 200 add-ons by default, but they’re only loaded as needed so startup time is still <1 second