Hacker News: Baerbeisserhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BaerbeisserHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:47:09 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Baerbeisser in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"]]>If you go that far, metapad (from 98) is still better than notepad ever was. Also loads 100k lines files quickly.

]]>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:48:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974921Baerbeisserhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974921https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974921<![CDATA[New comment by Baerbeisser in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"]]>There's still old tiny Metapad. And also more modern and fully featured (but still light) Notepad 2/3/4 and Notepad++. For full replacement, i just renamed all instances to notepad.exe.bak, back then on Windows 7 & 10, and rename-replaced it with metapad.exe. Though, i guess with UWP apps (modern Notepad is one), it's just file associations nowadays. There's surely some mass-reassociate utility around?

Btw, nano is only 50/50 chance that's it's pre-installed. Learn some vim, will ya? ;)

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