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   Paul to John   
   Re: Bug reporting, never mind.   
   13 Dec 25 05:28:17   
   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 12/12/2025 5:01 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:   
   > On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:11:29 -0500   
   > Paul  wrote:   
   >   
   > []   
   >> Some bugs never get fixed, the staff being uninterested   
   >> in the work involved. That's how Notepad on Windows   
   >> can go for fifteen years without the Find/Replace   
   >> behavior getting fixed. But it was eventually   
   >> fixed properly -- my jaw dropped the day I tested   
   >> that and it was fixed.   
   >   
   > Cite?   
   > I've found bug reports for notepad++, but didn't come across the MS bug   
   >   
      
   Here are the test results. Tested Win7 and Win10 Wordpad for contrast.   
   Only one Notepad test thrown in.   
      
   Wordpad is slow.   
   And was still slow on Win10 before it was deprecated.   
      
   Notepad barely blipped a core doing the test.   
      
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     Paul   
      
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