"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.2183.1335491333.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On 4/27/12, H. S. Teoh <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote: >> It's ironic how useless Notepad is compared to an ancient DOS program >> from the dinosaur age. > > If you run "edit" in command prompt or the run dialog (well, assuming > you had a win32 box somewhere), you'd actually get a pretty decent > dos-based editor that is still better than Notepad. It has split > windows, a tab stop setting, and even a whole bunch of color settings. > :P
Heh, I remember that :) Holy crap, even in XP, they updated it to use the Windows standard key combos for cut/copy/paste. I had no idea, all this time. Back in DOS, it used that old "Shift-Ins" stuff.