Flutterby™! : The functionality may still be there

The functionality may still be there

2025-05-23 17:48:54.940864+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@vmst.io observed

What being a Windows user is like in 2025

With a link to very-jaded on this Ars Technica article:

There's a difference between the "Notepad app" and notepad.exe. The Notepad app has the AI and all the new stuff in it. But the old C : \windows\system32\notepad.exe still exists, and is unencumbered by all those new features.

By uninstalling the "Notepad app", the old notepad.exe takes over as the default text editor. And you can once again edit a config file without having the quotation marks automatically replaced by smart quotes.

EDIT: I've only done this on my work Windows 11 Pro 23H2 laptop. I don't know about other versions of Windows.

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#Comment Re: The functionality may still be there made: 2025-05-23 23:28:46.965757+02 by: brainopener

Oh... like the difference between vi and vim.... (I kid, I kid)

#Comment Re: The functionality may still be there made: 2025-05-27 16:47:01.045409+02 by: Dan Lyke

Maybe, if vim inserted "smart" quotes...

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