@Todd-Marshall ,
Some comments, based on your two most recent posts:
We had no way to know how exactly you used the AI – it could have been either of the following:
you prompted it to “take a common problem found in Notepad++ and propose a solution”
This version was why I suggested it might have been hallucination
Since you didn’t say earlier, I had no way to know this wasn’t what had happened.
you prompted it with "brace matching is not working for me in Notepad++, with details X, Y, Z. could you re-write this as a “proposal for improvement”
This version was why I suggested that it was bad data fed into the prompt (ie, that you were wrong)
This turned out to be closer to the truth, as you described. Both in regards to what you actually asked the AI to do, and with regard to the fact that you were wrong or incomplete in your description to the AI
This was a lot of extra effort on your part. Instead of explaining to the AI what you wanted to say, and then have it re-write your text in its own words, you could have just explained it to us in your own words. And it would have been better, because it wouldn’t have introduced the AI-garbage uncertainty. And you wouldn’t have been violating the forums rules for posting. So it would have been better all around.
Your posts don’t even match the AI text you posted. In your two most-recent posts, you claim you suggested Ctrl+D, but your AI text actually suggested Ctrl+] … that’s two different keystrokes. So by going through the AI intermediary, you didn’t even know what you posted.
Re: Documentation:
I have no idea what you mean by “mired in COIK”
As the primary maintainer of the Notepad++ documentation, if you have concrete examples of how the
Online User Manual is “poorly organized”, feel free to
create an issue in the user manual repo with concrete descriptions… but understand that the basic structure is pretty set-in-stone at this point.
But if you really meant, “I have been burned by other documentation before, so I don’t bother reading any documentation”, the onus is still on you to give each new application’s documentation a chance before rejecting it out-of-hand.
I really don’t care about how good or bad the documentation for a major corporation’s huge flagship product is, and you basing your decision on whether or not to read any documentation based on a bad experience with a huge, gigantic application like that is rather unfair of you to any other documentation
Re: the root cause being mismatched braces: you cannot really expect a feature that says “go to matching brace” to work as you described you wanted when the braces aren’t matching. And, in fact, the way that Notepad++ does work helps to indicate that the braces are mismatched, now that you know what that symptom means.
To sum up: don’t post AI-generated content in a Community of human Users of Notepad++; it’s not allowed, and it didn’t work well for you when you did.
