(Notepad++ Fundamentally Flawed Rehash By The Same Guy)

Attention John Haller:

Below (under the double dashed lines) is a copy of a paragraph from this Notepad++ bug-tracker web page:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1340765&group_i...

That paragraph much too clearly reveals a serious flaw in a program that you are promoting. So you may want to go to that web page and post a comment that flames the writer of that paragraph. For example, you can call him a troll. A quick and simple flame like that will be much easier for you than actually saying anything of any substance on the issue. But unfortunately, after doing your flame, you won't be able to lock the topic on that web page as you did on this web page:

https://portableapps.com/node/8550

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This is a major bug, and it is therefore very disappointing that Don Ho, the program's author, is refusing to fix it. In fact, he says "I won't do it" (scroll down to see his post). Here is a scenario that will show you why it is indeed a major bug. Joe User creates a new document and wishes to save it as a plain-text (".txt" extension) file. So Joe does what just about any Windows user would do: he pulls down the "File" menu and clicks "Save As". Then, as expected, a normal-looking Windows "Save As" dialog box pops up. Joe types a file name in the "File name" field. So far everything is perfectly OK. But now here is where Joe steps into a mess caused by a bug in the Notepad++ program. Continuing to interact with that same "Save As" dialog box, Joe pulls down the "Save as type" menu and clicks "Normal text file (*.txt)", and then Joe clicks the "Save" button. Unfortunately, because of the bug, Joe's file is not saved as a "Normal text file (*.txt)". In fact, it is not saved with any extension at all. In other words, as far as Windows is concerned, it is an unknown file type. To summarize, it is a bug because, when saving a new document, the program does not save as the type selected on the "Save as type" menu. It is a *major* bug because it occurs at a critical step of a common task.