Rename project to have a new name for the application (Notepad2z, NotepadZu, or...?)

[ADTC]

Came across this while looking for a Notepad2 replacement. That program was abandoned in 2012; that's 9 years ago! Thank you for actively maintaining this.

Since this project has a life of its own now, I think its app should have its own name (in the same vein as Notepad3 and Notepad2e). Perhaps, consider these suggestions:

Zotepad

z for @zufuliu as a tribute to the maintainer 🙏

Notepad2z

similar to Notepad2e

Notepad2-Z or Notepad2-zuf

similar to Notepad2-mod

NotepadZu

/notepad zoo/ sounds like Notepad2 /notepad too/ but cooler 😎

NotepadZ

can't use this but may inspire a variation 🤔💡

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Personally I like Zotepad as it's unique and noticeable, or NotepadZu as it has character and freshness, but Notepad2z maintains the connection to the official Notepad2.

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[zufuliu]

@gbaoye may have good ideas on this.

[Mapaler]

我觉得不错。
项目名和程序名都可以改成Notepad2-Z，类似Notepad2-Mod一样
但是可执行程序名还是保持notepad2.exe，以兼容命令行。

[ADTC]

What @Mapaler said: (Google Translate)

I think it's good.
Both the project name and the program name can be changed to Notepad2-Z, similar to Notepad2-Mod,
but the executable program name is still notepad2.exe to be compatible with the command line.

This is a good point and makes sense. Some people may have scripts that rely on the exact name. One particular usage is Git's commit message editor. (Personally though I have it set to just notepad.exe which redirects to Notepad2 via the registry.)

[lenny20]

如果要改程序名，可以改成NotepadZ，如果加“-”就难看了，我一直反感“-Mod”。
程序名不宜太长太复杂，否则影响传播。

[ADTC]

It's already used by another software :)

[Mapaler]

我觉得应该加“-”。
我个人反感Notepad3的名字，明明是来源于Notepad2-mod，结果让人第一眼以为是不一样的的新软件。
个人的美观喜好不能代表大多数人。

[zufuliu]

I think we indeed need a unique project name (repository name and program name should be kept unchanged) to distinguish between different notepad2 forks.
using my (briefed) name as suffix is somewhat not improper, as it feels to me contributions by other contributors are totally forgotten.
I think "-mod" like neuter suffix is good, but we need to pick another one (not derived from "modification" or "extension", as already used).

I hope we can find some suitable suffixes before January (v4.22.01 scheduled on January 16th would be a good time to make the changes), please share your ideas and intelligence, thanks🙏.

[ADTC]

Other suggestions:

• Notepad22 (to commemorate the name change in v4.22.01)
• Notepad5 (because there is no Notepad5)
• NotepadX (where X is any number greater than 3, because there's no NotepadX) 😆

Sorry I'm not very creative. But hey, Atom is a text editor with a name that has no relevance to its purpose!

[zufuliu]

A new name (without mention Notepad2) would possible suggests to deprecate this repository. due to my limited vocabulary, I can not find either a suffix or name at the present😓

[Mapaler]

综合一下就是 Notepad2-moZ

[PNBRQK]

综合一下就是 Notepad2-moZ

Notepad2-mZ, shorter better

[Mapaler]

综合一下就是 Notepad2-moZ

Notepad2-mZ, shorter better

You say better, moZ makes people think of Mozilla, it's not very good

[Shakil-Shahadat]

NotepadZ could have been a great name but it is already taken. For me, it doesn't matter how many people contributed to it, things that matter to me is who gave a new life to it and maintained it.

NotepadX sounds dope to me. Personally, I can also suggest NotepadR, R refers to 'Reborn'. I was fed up with the native notepad and started using the original notepad2. After a while, I started using Notepad2-mod for a while. But I was sad because it was abandoned. I wanted more features and started looking for similar projects or forks. And then I found Notepad2. I really liked it. I use it almost every day. I am amazed at the constant improvements. Notepad2 looks like a reborn of the original Notepad2 and Notepad2-mod to me. That's why I suggest NotepadR.

[ADTC]

NotepadR

I love it! R for Reborn. Nice! Could also be Notepad2r (Notepad2 reborn).

👏

[zufuliu]

OK, Notepad2r is our first candidate 👍. it can also means Notepad2 rebranded (but without an actually name 😃), or other good words.

Consider that we'd better to rename the master branch to main (see https://github.com/github/renaming), rename the repository totally is considerable, the document at https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/renaming-a-repository says GitHub auto redirects links to old repository to the new one.

[ADTC]

It's awesome that GitHub supports redirecting. Just watch out for that warning to not create a new repository with the old name.

[Shakil-Shahadat]

I was gonna ask to rename the master branch to main at some point, it's a good decision.

[zufuliu]

Rename the master branch seems can be done immediately, as https://github.com/github/renaming indicates GitHub finished all the hard work👍. I think we need to wait some days, so other forks / packagers can retrieve latest v4.21.09 code without any changes.

Announced in issue #380, I hope first commit (unless there are regressions for v4.21.09, workaround for issue #378 can be done in this week) for v4.21.11 goes into the main branch.

[Mapaler]

改名之后建一个 Chocolatey 包吧，Notepad3 已经在上面了
https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=notepad2

[zufuliu]

It seems these Chocolatey packages were upload by individual packagers, not project maintainers, issue #379 is created to track this.

[zufuliu]

Two words come into my head: Notepad2Re and Notepad2ℜ (which is Notepad2\Re in LaTeX), both are easy to pronounce than Notepad2R.

[Mapaler]

后面那个只适合做商标，直接搜索打不出来的。比如 Ω 手表，大家还是要打 OMEGA 才方便搜索。
由于字体原因，ℜ还不一定在所有人的电脑上正常显示，不是很适合这种基础Win32程序。

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Re:Zero − Starting Coding in Another Notepad

[spectatorBH]

1. How about ReNote or ReNote2 or ReNoteZ? The official logo (not the repo name) could be written as Re:Note or Re:Note2.

2. Another idea is ZuPad or ZuPad2. Sounds funny and unique to me.

3. Yet one more is Notepad42 -- as the Ultimate Answer to the Universe and Everything simple text editing.

4. And the final one is Notepad2U -- where U could also imply Unlimited, Unmatched or whatever else.

5. Notepad2All or Notepad2Everything...

[zufuliu]

@spectatorBH thanks for these proposals.

[spectatorBH]

Notepad2Go

[spectatorBH]

Notepad Infinity -> Notepad∞

Notepad2 Continuum

Notepad Reborn

[Mapaler]

Notepad2bc

[Remonli]

Notepad42 is great ,means this is the ultimate answer to all questions on windows notepad enhance apps.

[gbaoye]

我们不要用数字，用数字意味着被超越，不要用 Notepad2 Notepad3 Notepad4，用 Notepad Re 之类的 Remonli ***@***.***> 于2021年10月22日周五 上午4:49写道：

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[zufuliu]

What about Notepad2S (successor or something like iPhone ?S)?

[Shakil-Shahadat]

That sounds good.

[Mapaler]

Special（读作 スペシャル[滑稽]）

[cpo-ux]

I vote Notepad2z for simplicity. Why not create a poll Zufu Liu? You could get people to vote on a shortlist, since the list below is too long IMO.

Notepad Infinity
Notepad Reborn
Notepad2 Continuum
Notepad2-moZ
Notepad2-mZ
Notepad2-Z
Notepad2-zuf
Notepad22
Notepad2All
Notepad2bc
Notepad2Everything
Notepad2Go
Notepad2r
Notepad2Re
Notepad2S
Notepad2U
Notepad2z
Notepad2ℜ
Notepad4
Notepad42
Notepad5
NotepadR
NotepadX
NotepadZu
Notepad∞
renopad
ReNote
ReNote2
ReNoteZ
ZuPad
ZuPad2

[cpo-ux]

Vote here if you'd like. This might simplify things.

https://poll-maker.com/poll4047000x00132199-127

[ADTC]

@cpo-ux paste your link without any markdown.

https://poll-maker.com/poll4047000x00132199-127

[meteorquake]

I'm glad to have found this new version just the other day, I was using one of the old forks.

• Can I recommend getting it a mention (even better, a recommendation; and removal of dead ones and note of how active) on Flo's original page so people can be directed to here? Of the ones currently mentioned there only Notepad2e seems to be recently active although my impression is it is simpler than this fork. However it's possibly worth a glance to see if it has any useful concepts if not already done so - https://github.com/ProgerXP/Notepad2e/releases
• I really like the idea of Notepad2 Reborn - with the '2' as the vote only had Notepad Reborn (without the '2').
• There may be the old issue of split voting but I see the vote gets around that by allowing multiple choices - I originally just selected 1 then resubmitted it with several, hopefully that's been processed in some suitable way. I wonder if others only submitted 1 choice rather than the ideal of several.
  Cheers, David

[ADTC]

@cpo-ux can you edit the poll and add Zotepad? I already added it under Other, but it still doesn't appear as an option to new voters.

[cpo-ux]

The poll has been edited with the two new names added however you will have to vote again to have your vote counted. (for the new entries anyway).

Feel free to edit the poll yourself in the future with link below. I have removed the "other" voting category since it creates confusion later for results counting IMO so if somebody has new names going forward, it will be easier to administer the poll by requesting for a new name to be added to the list and then later the votes can be made (and automatically counted).

https://www.poll-maker.com/#qp=4047000x8D45A8a3-127

[ADTC]

One more suggestion. How about:

Zotepad

🙂

• The Z represents @zufuliu and it's also N turned 90 degrees.
• It's just like the original Notepad with no extra prefix or suffix, just a rotated N.
• Very unique. Google has only 17 results for this. Seventeen!
• Domains may be squatted but zotepad.io might be available.

[ADTC]

It's Zotye Auto, not Zote. I think we'd be fine. Also, a big car company coming to sue a small open-source project? 😆

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotye_Auto

[ADTC]

And actually, I thought you're talking about Zote bar soap: https://www.thespruce.com/where-can-i-find-zote-soap-1387947

If so, that's even more obscure than the car company 😄

[Mapaler]

And actually, I thought you're talking about Zote bar soap: https://www.thespruce.com/where-can-i-find-zote-soap-1387947

If so, that's even more obscure than the car company 😄

zufuliu are using Chinese, so I'm focused on China. Maybe can think of a nice Chinese name.

[cpo-ux]

@ADTC

@Mapaler what's that, in English please?

https://translate.google.com

You can copy and paste and find the translation fyi.

[ADTC]

@cpo-ux yes, I did. But machine translations are often inaccurate. It doesn't come close to a human being explaining what it is.

[zufuliu]

I was thought just rename the project (e.g. keep all exe and ini names, so no (or very small) breaking changes for end user) like Git for Windows or 7-Zip-Zstandard:

[Mapaler]

我有相同想法，保持Notepad2的主名不变。Notepad2-Mod停更后，后续的人会在它的基础上开发并提到它，它是Notepad2家族历史上的重要一员。Notepad3将主要名字修改了，如果谁在Notepad3的基础上继续开发，就会叫Notepad4，然后下一个是Notepad5，我认为这样很奇怪。

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I have the same idea, keeping the main name of Notepad 2 unchanged. After the Notepad2-Mod stops, subsequent people will develop and mention it on its basis, and it is an important member of the Notepad2 family history. Notepad3 has changed its main name, and if anyone continues to develop on top of the Notepad3, it'll be called Notepad4, and then the next one is Notepad5, which I think is strange.

[Mapaler]

看您首页名称是 Zufu Liu，那您应该姓刘吧？那是不是应该叫 Notepad2-L 才对？

[Mapaler]

中文名	英文名	简写
记事本贰	Notepad2
记事本贰 · 改	Notepad2 - Modify	Notepad2 - Mod
记事本贰 · 袭	Notepad2 - Inherit	Notepad2 - I
记事本贰 · 续	Notepad2 - be continued	Notepad2 - BC
Z感觉没啥够中二的中文字	Notepad2 - Z

[eltakin]

npclassic - similar to media player classic (mpclassic)
npc-ze (notepad classic - zulu etition)
npc-zl (notepad classic - zulu)
handpad(z)
handnot(e)(z)
(z)ownpad
ownpad(z)
(z)ownnote
ownnote(z)

[zufuliu]

Temporary update repository description to "Notepad2-zufuliu" (stolen from ConEmu-Maximus5), no other changes.

ConEmu-Maximus5 is a Windows console emulator with tabs, which represents multiple consoles as one customizable GUI window with various features.

[MrCanan]

Stay Notepad2 or become NotepadX =)

[VoilierBleu]

Here some proposals :

Notepad2 zfl (zufuliu)
Notepad2+
Notepad2 ng (new generation)
Notepad2u
Notepad2 ns (no customizables shortcuts)

[chuanliwen]

I read all the candidates again and like Notepad2+ best. it is the best and most appropriate name for this project.

[zufuliu]

I added Notepad2++ as an alias in project description: all *.c were renamed to *.cpp, both programs were rewritten in C++.

[chuanliwen]

Notepad2+: a project based on notepad2, further improved and kept updated.
Notepad2++: longer, redundant, and anything to do with Notepad++?

[zufuliu]

Nothing replated to Notepad++, it's Notepad2 rewritten in modern C++ (see readme.md).

[zufuliu]

Naming (especially find a short one with less than 9 letters) is hard for me, we already spent too much time on this topic, I think it's time to end it. I will just pick Notepad4 (though Notepad 5, 6, 8 already picked by other people). Everything (exe, ini, source file name, etc.) will be renamed, whole project will be written with modern C++ (C++17 with few C++20), so next version (v24.xx, same version scheme as Ubuntu, 7-zip and LibreOffice) may be delayed.

[bluenlive]

Maybe I'll make a new path and redirct old name to new name.

[zufuliu]

OK, please let me know when you have a new path, maybe I can assume it to be https://teus.me/category/IT/Notepad4 ?

[bluenlive]

I changed path to https://teus.me/Notepad4
And, of course old path is redirected to that one.

[zufuliu]

Got it, will update the link when updating wiki (most likely when updating screenshots).

[zufuliu]

All links updated to https://teus.me/Notepad4.

[zufuliu]

Renaming is mostly completed (except screenshot used in home page, which will be updated when next version is ready). Modernize C++ code (for file renamed from C) will take some time.