Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95

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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 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

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Reject modern GUI text editors, embrace Vim

I've been using for the last 2 years becuase I don't know how to exit it.

Hopefully you find a way out........please let me know if you have found a way out.

:wq The sacred knowledge

You mean "Esc Esc Del Esc Ctrl-C Ctrl-C Ctrl-X Ctrl-Q Esc Esc F11 Ctrl-Z Del Del Del Del F11 F12 F2 Backspace Esc Esc fn0wosnfosjvopakgnapociwbsopalfnnqod9gjbqnspfojwbab9fiehjr "

Doom emacs is superior

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.)

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

Eh, I’ve got so many keybindings and scripts and changes already and I actually quite like my setup. Not looking to learn vim keybindings beyond the ones I know (essentially how to close vim 😁).