alt Hacker NewsWindows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
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This seems to be a product management hickup. Call it either something else or add the functionality to WordPad.
Markdown is a superset of HTML. Does this mean notepad is now an HTML renderer as well?
Can't they just leave it alone?
Why must they ruin notepad instead of creating a notepad++.
Never in a million years would I have guess that fucking Markdown of all languages would become the dominant syntax for telling computers what to do, but thanks to LLMs and prompts... here we are.
Wow, what a time to be alive in this year of 2004!
(2004 is the year Markdown was invented. Notepad got introduced in 1983 and actually predates Windows)
10 IoT LTSC ftw!
This would be a huge bonus for me if I ever had to use windows for anything.
Just include Visual Studio Code, leave Notepad alone. Edit: On second thought, go ahead. I'm already off the OS, exactly because of things like this. The less relevant the OS becomes, the better my life will be.
> Coloring book will be available only on Copilot+ PCs. To use Coloring book, you will need to sign in with your Microsoft account.
Oh boy.
Notepad++ already exists, is more reliable, and already has a md support plugin
recent vuln asside (big caveat ill admit) idk why you would use notepad at all when N++ exists
A little bit slow, Mr. Microsoft ...
Leave Notepad alone!
( In case you forgot: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vw1rMkUFqyc )
Is the value add for Notepad not that it is litterally the most bare bones graphical text editor available in Windows?
Microsoft has already positioned VS Code as its code editor and OneNote as its notetaking app. Why should Notepad compete with these offerings?
Honestly they lost me at tabs. I like my notepad ephemeral.
i used notepad for the first time in a decade, and it's awesome. mine supports markdown, and tabs.
Oh look. Another random and unneeded feature appears in their legacy tool.
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Windows 11 LTSC still has the old school notepad.exe (and calc.exe) instead of this UWP abomination. Also: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...
noooooo
Can Microsoft please stop? If I need Copilot and Markdown Support I use VS Code or any other software that supports it.
I recently used Windows Sandbox and was surprised that it does not have notepad. And why? Because it's a Store App now and that's unsupported inside the Windows Sandbox.
Notepad is supposed to be dumb, not Microsoft!
FUCK MICROSOFT.
Thanks, I hate it. How do I disable it? Oh, I can't. Thanks, I hate it more.
Yeah no.
Stopped using notepad when they added co-pilot. Stop shoving AI down our throats.
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I don’t see why people are complaining. If you use notepad for txt files, nothing changes.
TIL Windows still has Notepad.
Somebody should probably tell Microsoft we’ve all moved on to better things like Notepad++ (even when their update supply chain gets compromised).
Janaury 21st post including 'additional' Markdown support;
Meanwhile, 2 weeks ago:
Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971516