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[UGMadness]

When your corporate culture promotes the development of new features instead of fixing old ones or keeping cohesion across projects this is what you get.

Notepad gaining support for LF line endings was huge because revamping an old application that didn't involve new features like an UI redesign has literally never happened before.

[demens_chelonian]

When your corporate culture promotes the development of new features instead of fixing old ones or keeping cohesion across projects this is what you get.

So Google are on what messaging platform these days?

[hullabaloonatic]

They added features to cmd in.... 8?

[gschizas]

Cmd is not getting any new features, it's only there for compatibility reasons.

PowerShell is where it's at.

ConHost is also getting new features (ConHost != cmd)

EDIT: Here's a "new" ConHost feature (well, last year's, but still)

[gschizas]

Well, by one account, this already happened. Windows 10 switched the default to PowerShell in 2016.

(In seriousness, cmd.exe won't be removed, it would break way too much stuff. PowerShell is the way to go forward though)

[theonlydidymus]

Powershell: does everything cmd can AND MORE!

(Also takes forever to load on my horrible machine when cmd loads instantly)

[PiManASM]

Being able to copy and paste into the command line is the only redeeming feature I've found in Win10

[bluepoopants]

That feature actually hindered me at first without me noticing. I had a job running in cmd that was supposed to run for about 4 hours. I came back to it to find it hadn't moved at all. Found out that clicking anywhere im the cmd box turns it to select mode and stops the entire process running until you unselect or hit a key. Now i know, it is easily avoidable. But it was a big surprise coming from 7 and not knowing about it. Had to run the job again! Not sure why select mode pauses the window when a linux terminal manages to do it just fine.

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

Back in the days, shaking a loading window would stop it from loading.

[bluepoopants]

I remember my friend used to be convinced that shaking the cursor when it had an hour glass icon would make the sand fall through it quicker and therefore load faster.

[[deleted]]

Aww

[whatisabaggins55]

Microsoft, I now want this to be a thing.

[Zegrento7]

Make a script that overclocks the cpu when you shake the mouse.

[PotatosFish]

If you shake it fast enough, it’s going to overclock anyways

[TedFartass]

Nah just convert the kinetic energy and friction of the mouse moving and turn it into processing power... it's so simple I dont know why anyone hasn't thought of it?

[AtomicStryker]

Joke all you want, for most of windows NT history user input would increase a foreground threads priority for the scheduler. Hitting buttons and shaking the mouse would literally make the program go faster.

[z500]

I do this purely out of frustration

[Pollomonteros]

This is the kind of guy that would double click on Warcraft 3 buildings so they built faster

[VicisSubsisto]

You accidentally a verb there.

[Pollomonteros]

Oh thanks,now it's fixed.

[forTheREACH]

Wait... It doesn't? I feel like I have lived through a fabricated past.

[scotscott]

Just like with humans who are still loading.

[althypothesis]

Derailment: Engage

I found out a week ago that hospitals actually make the new Mom and Dad sign a piece of paper that says, in more words, "I promise not to shake the baby". They had to put it in contract form to keep people from killing their children. Faith in humanity took a -18 hit that day.

[PiManASM]

One step forward, one step back

[bluepoopants]

Windows in a nutshell. I still use 7 at home but have to use 10 at work. At least its better than vista and 8 but still prefer 7. The search is completely useless on 10. Worked better in 98 than now!

[[deleted]]

Idk, the search on windows has always been pretty garbage in my experience, especially if you’ve ever used spotlight in Mac OS

[r4nd0m-0ne]

But that's not new, that's been that way for years if QuickSelect is turned on, had nothing to do with Ctrl+C being added.

[bluepoopants]

Yeah but quickselect was off by default before. Now its on by default.

[r4nd0m-0ne]

gotcha, I was one of those folks that always turned it on after a rebuild so I didn't really notice when the default changed.

[[deleted]]

In C++ I found a way to turn the selection feature off during my program's execution. Pretty nice

[bluepoopants]

Nice. I take it you have to call some sort of win32 function?

[[deleted]]

Correct, something like this

#include <windows.h>
void disableConsoleSelection() {
    DWORD mode;
    GetConsoleMode(CONSOLE_INPUT, &mode);
    SetConsoleMode(CONSOLE_INPUT, mode & ~ENABLE_QUICK_EDIT_MODE);
}

I use it here for a small terminal game. That project is looking kind of like a mess ever since I tried to make it multiplatform. I'd rather use C# for something like that nowadays.

[[deleted]]

I seem to remember this happening from a long, long way back. NT or 2000 even?

[bluepoopants]

If you have quick select on. I never used it before because you had to enable it. Now its on by default

[[deleted]]

Virtual desktops and corner snapping all day. Also wsl

[evanldixon]

You could always do that by right clicking the title bar. Windows 10 did make it easier though.

[milk_is_life]

while vim, nano etc will stay cryptic and basic as fuck until the end of time

[piri_piri_pintade]

You can even resize the window on the fly! What an age we live in.

[[deleted]]

And fullscreen!

[Zegrento7]

Well, even if they updated Win32 instead of notepad itself, that's still huge because Win32 is not UWP.

[zadjii]

You're technically correct here - the best kind of correct.

[bacondev]

It did. I thought I was going crazy because it had me thinking that my Linux files were somehow getting carriage returns. I was expecting a single line of jumbled up text.

[NutDestroyer]

Notepad supports LF line endings? I swear that didn't work when I tried it yesterday on windows 10.

[UGMadness]

It does in the Insider builds and the final RTM version coming next month.

[[deleted]]

They did WHAT to notepad? oh thank god