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I'm not sure how they built this thing, but it makes sense to me on the face of it: Notepad should be the thinnest wrapper possible around a simple textbox, and the generated thing they're showing should be built into the widget itself so it's exposed to all apps in the OS (much like macOS exposes emacs/readline-style shortcuts everywhere that uses a default textbox).



The last time they significantly improved the text box was adding in support for mixed LTR and RTL characters around Windows 2000.

And arguably Windows 10 adding in the emoji IME when you hit WindowsKey + .




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