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muvlonyesterday at 8:34 AM1 replyview on HN

What other markdown viewers or editors support URL schemes that just execute code? And not in a browser sandbox but in the same security context notepad itself is running in.


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mananaysiempreyesterday at 4:31 PM

Funnily enough, the core Windows API here that brings with it support for every URL scheme under the sun is plain old ShellExecute() from the mid-90s IE-in-the-shell era when such support was thought reasonable. (I actually still think it’s reasonable, just not with the OS architectures we have now or had then.)