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Re: T/OT: Vibe coding a Windows notes app with Claude



Reply to note from "Martin J. Osborne" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Mon, 4 May 2026
20:27:00 -0400

Martin,

Thanks for taking a look.

> Can you give some use-cases for the DOS-command-running
> functionality?

Well, they're endless, really. At the threshold, you can use a text window as a substitute for a
CMD.exe terminal; just type a command and hit Ctrl+Enter, and the command output will appear. You
can then manipulate any part of the output as you would any other text. Or, after viewing the
output, Ctrl+Z disappears it. Or, type a command and hit Alt+Enter to execute it silently. For
example, type this line and hit Alt+Enter:

start https://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne

It becomes immediately obvious that you can build files of related links, or more generally, related
commands, with annotations, etc. Looking ahead, command execution will play a vital role in
composing macros or scripts.

> As far as I can see you don't have incremental search.  Have you
> thought of adding it?

If you use Ctrl+F and type in the search box, you'll get an incremental search as you type each
letter. Hitting Enter repeatedly will take you to the next "hit".

> I see that I got a warning when I ran quicknotes:
> C:\quicknotes\quicknotes.py

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll add it to the punch list. It's early days, and there's a ton of
wrinkles to be ironed out.

-- 
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx