Eversince I know about it, Notepad++ is always my favorite. Given a windows machine, the first thing, I would do is to install Notepad++ in it. As I blogged earlier here, Notepad++ is amazingly great tool.
As you see, being so much addicted to Notepad++, Today, I decided to replace the windows default notepad with notepad++. That’s Quite a Simple, there is a handy guide available here (You need scroll half way down to see the tip).
I made a quick glance on the tip and quickly downloaded the notepad replacement executable and copied the files to the relevant folder. At this point, I noticed an interesting phenomena, i.e., when I replaced notepad.exe in the C:\windows folder, with in a fraction of second, old notepad.exe file is created back again in the C:\windows folder. That’s a silent trick Microsoft has done to ensure, notepad is not lost by virus or trojan.
So I was stuck at it. Again, I read the tip carefully, and I find the solution, i.e, I have to copy the file to various folder locations in the same order mentioned in the tip.(first on i386 folder -> dllcache -> system32 -> winroot). Voila. it worked.
Windows no more replaces the new file with the default notepad.exe. and Now, I started typing this blog in notepad++.
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Yes, Thats the normal correlation. In addition to that, there were some political / business reasons.
I agree! The ONLY reason to create a “new-language” is only to eradicate the problem/limitation with earlier language.
Might be of interest: Do try emacs or vim both has many features with macros. Both of them has a programmable (with elisp or ctags) editor.
Cool.. I would definitely give it a try later.
Now my focus is on various scripting languages.
But really one has to admit that there were so many languages.. no wonder, if computer language count supersedes human language count..:)