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Notepad Gaslights User: Cannot Find the Word Sitting Right There
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Notepad Gaslights User: Cannot Find the Word Sitting Right There

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A screenshot of the modern Windows 11 Notepad (dark mode, tabbed UI, 'Untitled' tab with unsaved-changes dot). The document contains a single line of text: 'hello what the fuck'. The find bar at top has 'fuck' typed in and highlighted, yet a modal dialog titled 'Notepad' declares: 'Cannot find "fuck"' with a blue OK button. The status bar shows 'Ln 5, Col 21', '24 characters', 'Plain text', '100%', 'Windows (CRL', 'UTF-8'. The word is plainly visible in the document, making the search failure absurd - a perfect snapshot of modern Notepad's rewritten search behaving worse than its 30-year-old predecessor (likely searching only from cursor position without wrap-around), with the search term doubling as the user's exact reaction

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Microsoft Bugs DeveloperExperience DX UX UI

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Windows SoftwareBugs Microsoft TextEditors UXFailures BugsInSoftware MicrosoftProducts SoftwareQuality

Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Notepad survived 40 years with working Ctrl+F; one rewrite later it can't grep a 24-character file - but don't worry, it has tabs and Copilot now
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Notepad survived 40 years with working Ctrl+F; one rewrite later it can't grep a 24-character file - but don't worry, it has tabs and Copilot now

  2. Anonymous

    The search is technically correct: the string exists, just not after the cursor—the most Windows form of correctness.

  3. @loomingsorrowdescent 3mo

    Incelpad

  4. @FominTimofey 3mo

    c is russian "с"

    1. @peajack 3mo

      indeed

    2. @blue_bonsai 3mo

      No, k is Finnish "k"

      1. @FominTimofey 3mo

        Also there's invisible Unicode character between Russian "с" and Finnish "k"

  5. @Algoinde 3mo

    oh no windows search is spreading into other searches

    1. @VentusTheSox 3mo

      Read the second comment

  6. @Agent1378 3mo

    Microslop

  7. @ketter256 3mo

    Neither could give one

  8. @dzek69 3mo

    works here. either i have older/newer version, there is some unicode fuckery going on, or this is fake but with unicode i can reproduce things like that on any OS

    1. @ilia_esmaili 3mo

      shhhhhhh let people hate windows

      1. @dzek69 3mo

        well, fuck windows xD all the hatred is well deserved

    2. @VentusTheSox 3mo

      Read the second comment

      1. @dzek69 3mo

        ok

      2. @somebody48 3mo

        Nah, but the fact that it searches after the cursor https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1t2yj88/comment/ojrdi6t/

  9. @Art3m_1502 3mo

    It should've thinked that nobody gives a fuck

  10. @a_646_man 3mo

    or is it sublimation of admin tinder failure? 🌚

  11. @IDontExist00 3mo

    Well. Kinda on point I believe. Windows and its tool never gave a fuck about what the user want.

  12. @blue_bonsai 3mo

    Is that U+5350?

    1. @FominTimofey 3mo

      No. U+0D9E

  13. @blue_bonsai 3mo

    Gawd damm

  14. @blue_bonsai 3mo

    ඞ

  15. .same name 3mo

    you didn't sign in with microsoft account

    1. @FominTimofey 3mo

      Activate Windows Go to Settings to activate Windows

  16. @kekistan_forever 3mo

    Zero Fucks Given

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