I can't save notepad

[Bruno Valdeolmillos]

Hello good day, that's my problem, I hit enter and it doesn't respond, I click on save nothing either. How do I solve it? Thanks

[Campbell Ritchie]

I gave up using Notepad ages ago.
Did you mean to post here in the MD forum, or did youi really want an answer? Please explain more. NotePad, when I used it, had some bad habits, including adding a “.txt” extension whether you needed it or not.

[Bruno Valdeolmillos]

and what do you use now to replace it?
Well, the only thing that changed these days was to disable the f1, f2, f3 keys through the BIOS. But I understand, this has nothing to do with me not being able to save a notepad file.
I just want to save it to my PC

[Campbell Ritchie]

If you are on Windows® I like NotePad++. It has advantages over the MS program with a similar name, including,

Automatic indentation,

Syntax highlighting,

bracket matching,

which all make it easier to use for programming.

[Paul Clapham]

Windows text editors conventionally use Control-S to save a file. The Enter key just puts line-ending characters into your document, it's not meant to save it as a file.

If you're using Notepad to create a new file then Control-S will prompt you to provide the name of the file and the folder to put it in. If you don't pay attention to the folder name then it's possible that you won't remember where Notepad saved the file and you might imagine that it did nothing.

[Bruno Valdeolmillos]

Of course, my friend, when you're typing, if you press enter, you just go down to the next line.
I mean that once the save as option is selected, there you choose the file name and hit enter and it is not saved. The same if I click on the word save.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Use the dir command to inspect the contents of thee current directory; you may find the file has been saved but with a different extension.

[Bruno Valdeolmillos]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Use the dir command to inspect the contents of thee current directory; you may find the file has been saved but with a different extension.

The problem is that it cannot be saved.
It seems that it is because I had deactivated the predefined function of f2f,f2, because I went back and now it is possible. incredible but real

[Campbell Ritchie]

What about ctrl‑S?

[James McDaniels]

Bruno Valdeolmillos wrote: I hit enter and it doesn't respond

Hi,
When you enter on a notepad, it'll take you to the next line.
Ctrl+S is for Save

[Tim Holloway]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:I gave up using Notepad ages ago.
Did you mean to post here in the MD forum, or did youi really want an answer? Please explain more. NotePad, when I used it, had some bad habits, including adding a “.txt” extension whether you needed it or not.

It is a convention in DOS/Windows that every app should have preferred file extension(s). Saving a new file would automatically append the default extension to the saved filename. STUPID apps wouldn't attempt to check to see whether an extension had already been supplied though, leading to constructs like "FOO.TXT.TXT".

The DOS 8.3 legacy has meant that having no extension at all was not a common practice and even more so when Microsoft attempted to use extensions in the manner that Apple historically used resource IDs in their own (extension-free) files to locate applicable apps.

Now what's really maddening are GUI apps for the Unix/Linux ecosphere where if you didn't explicitly supply an extension, you didn't get one. Most such apps are very old, but it's a perennial minefield requiring me to have to check what name a file really saved under.