Feature rolled out to insiders back in March, now available to the masses.
  • Stern@lemmy.world
    23·
    6 months ago

    i use notepad to save shitty ascii art in .txt format. if i wanted autocorrect and spellchecking i have like 500 apps i can use.

  • Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works
    81·
    6 months ago

    Maybe it’s just me, but I have no desire for autocorrect on the computer. I want the letters I type to be exactly the letters that are entered, and I’m perfectly capable of typing words on a full sized keyboard. It makes sense for a phone where the keyboard is small and you can’t feel the keys.

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 months ago

      Man, I’m dyslexic and a writer, so I thought that autocorrect would be really useful.

      So, there’s an autocorrect available on Linux, and it does work.

      But it is way more of a pain in the ass than a help. With an on screen keyboard, doing swipe typing, I don’t need autocorrect because I have the qwerty layout memorized, and can just make the patterns that make the words, and screwups are rare enough I don’t care. So I keep it off.

      But dealing with it on pc? I really thought it would help, but it’s in the way. It made things harder to process. I make less mistakes that need correcting just typing in my semi-huntnpeck way via keyboard than having the program interfering.

      Like, I’m the perfect use case for autocorrect, and it isn’t worth a damn.

    • dev_null
      1·
      6 months ago

      It’s an optional feature, so no harm having it.

  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    6 months ago

    “It looks like youʼre copying text from a copyrighted source. Would you like me to get a quote from the Microsoft Store for a license?”

  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
    31·
    6 months ago

    Have they added syntax highlighting yet? Every time I use it I’m amazed that it’s like the only text editor without syntax highlighting I know about

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      6 months ago

      Apple’s built-in TextEdit is more fully-featured than Notepad but doesn’t have syntax highlighting.

    • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      Still amazed that Microsoft Word can’t handle blocks of source code - that’s supposed to be the full-featured one…