Jelle Druyts

The shock! There's actually a bug in Notepad! Now there's an application that's been around for literally decades (since Windows Executive 1.0, apparently, whatever that may be), arguably one of the most-used Windows apps, a tool with hardly any features at all, and still it isn't bugfree!

Here's the extensive repro for your reference:

1. Open Notepad.exe (the original, not the unsupported third-party copycat Notepad2 mind you).
2. Make sure Word Wrap (under the Format menu) is off, because for some reason that will hide the status bar (I guess Word Wrap makes it "too hard" to calculate the line and column).
3. As you will see, the status bar is crucial in this scenario, so make sure the status bar is visible (through the View menu this time, it's such a crucial feature that it lives in its very own menu).
4. Edit a text file, watch the status bar update the line an column numbers in real time (whow).
5. Make sure you're not on the first line and first column (that would spoil the fun).
6. Now simply save the file.
7. Be dazzled! Lo and behold: the status bar is incorrect at this point! The line and column are both falsely said to be 1 although the cursor is really somewhere else:

If you too are suffering from this bug, you can work around it by moving your cursor around so the real-time status bar rendering engine kicks in again - but I find this behaviour simply unacceptable. Please, please fix this, Microsoft, I'm not afraid to use one of my four superfluous Incident Support calls that I got with my MSDN Universal Subscription to get a quickfix on this!

Update: I've checked the Beta 1 build of Windows Vista today and the bug is still in there. I guess they're looking at at least 3 months delay in their release schedule if they want to get this fixed...