Can I play with the Notepad code?

[David Quintana (gigaherz)]

Keep in mind that Wine is open-source, and you are completely free to
take the Notepad code and do whatever changes you want to it, as long
as you keep using a compatible license if you plan on releasing the
changed version.

On 8 May 2014 23:07, Gediminas Jakutis <gediminas at varciai.lt> wrote:
> On 2014.05.08 23:54, Susan Cragin wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I want to make Notepad remember which encoding scheme you last used.
>> Right now it defaults to ANSI Latin when opening a new file, and saves it that way too, unless you are careful.
>>
>> And, if I can, I want to make the following changes:
>> (1) use ALT-Windows-key to move lines up and down.
>> (2) use CTL-Windows-key to move paragraphs up and down.
>>
>> Lines and paragraphs are defined as follows:
>>
>> So this is a line of text.
>> And this is line 2 of text.
>> And this is line three of text.
>> But they are all part of Paragraph 1.
>>
>> Paragraph 2 starts after a blank line is inserted.
>> Sort of like Emacs.
>>
>> I've found the source code. I'm looking at where to put things.
>> I can do it in lisp, and I've got help for C.
>> http://source.winehq.org/source/programs/notepad/
>>
>> Can I can I can I? It's going to take me a while, so don't hold your collective breath.
>>
>> Susan
>>
>
> Hello!
>
> #define I_am_not_an_authority
>
> Wine's goal is to copy Windows' behavior as close as possible, ideally – act identically. So if this means those changes would make it deviate from that, I don't think this would have much of a chance to be accepted into Wine.
>
> #undef I_am_not_an_authority
>
> Hope this helps!
>
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> Gediminas Jakutis
> LDK Varčiai www.varciai.lt
>
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