As much as I liked old notepad, it is a pretty decent markdown editor.
Unfortunately it has a use. Microsoft discontinued WordPad
I was devasted when I heard this
Tabs were a welcome addition.
What we needed was a built-in hex editor, and maybe some better tools for working with unicode that you can’t just type in on whatever keyboard you have.
Instead, they turned it into WordPad, which we already have.
hex
Does windows power toys have one?
No idea. I want to say ‘yes’, but the last time I installed Power Toys was under Win2k.
Its not even wordpad. It only supports markdown not rtf… it only exists so they could easily shove copilot into it.
Both classic Notepad and classic WordPad can be downloaded and installed from third-party sites.
However, to thoroughly neuter the enshittified versions and ensure the classic versions are used in all workflows can take a bit more than what the installers recommend. Primarily, I would recommend adding the *.bak extension to the enshittified versions then make (IIRC) junction links from the classic ones to where the enshittified ones are sitting. This ensures that if anything reaches for the enshittified ones, the junction links are there to redirect the action to the classic versions.
Its really a shame. Every OS needs a simple text editor, possibly without formatting support of any kind. You’re not supposed to use it, it just makes it possible to edit basic configurations on the fly and things like that. Instead they support half of word pad and cram in copilot for some reason.
Although I do admit, I haven’t seen the need to move away from kwrite for a long time. Basic text editor that does what it should and does it right!I understand Notepad++ is pretty cool?
Yes, it’s not made by Microsoft.
I wish they’d release a version for Linux so I could experience the "pretty cool"ness for myself :)
Geany is pretty similar.
It probably runs on Wine/Proton.
I use Neovim (and Kate sometimes)
I use Helix.
Notepad’s sole purpose is to remove formatting from copied text.
ctrl+shift+v is your friend
that doesn’t usually work when copying between different Microsoft products. it always fucks it up somehow or simply doesn’t let you
Not always (looking angrily at you Outlook, meanwhile your brother Excel excels (ha!) at doing this while inputting data).
Fuck excel. The default should be to leave whatever the fuck I paste in there alone. If I want you to reformat shit I’ll tell you to reformat it.
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Everytime I paste something it there, the formatting (for better or for worse) stays on whatever the source was.But at least you can use the CTRL + Shift + V to paste it unformatted (Unlike Outlook)
Try doing upc codes and see how you feel about it.
Oh yeah…Data type pasting is…Interesting :p
Doesn’t work everywhere…
Unsurprisingly Microsoft products are the least consistent with it
That command gives me a bunch of more hoops to jump through
You can use Neovim (or any CLI text editor) for that
The Notepad getting junk added is a Microsoft Store app. The old notepad.exe is still usable.
And as for all things Windows 11 a tutorial is needed to painstakingly wade through every inch of bullshit.
Huh. That write up seems pretty useful. It’s so weird that the redesigned app is just an alias to the old and untouched app that’s still sitting in system32
Same way the rest of the OS is built.
All those fucked up snapins and apps and pretty pretty nonfunctional interfaces (try changing an ip) are utterly negated by start-run-“control”
Not all of them anymore. Some control panel icons just throw you into the new settings app.
Whomever was involved with the creation of the “new” printer settings menu should be killed by dumping a whole nest of fire ants high on bath salts into their rectum and then stapling it shut.
Probably as usual: Legacy reasons.
Well, as far as you consider the bugs usable.
I’ve totally fallen for markdown. I want more normies to know about it.
All the nice things about rich text with none of the Word.
Sad RTF noises.
Notepad went from simple to having an identity crisis.
Oh god, nobody look at org-mode 😳
So this is like Kate but for plebs?
Isn’t notepad an LLM client now?
Waiting for the rename to copad AI.
CopePad
See Copilot logo in top right
Feels like everything is. Might as well describe every app by it‘s (now) secondary function.
Some apps just have it as primary function now…
@REDACTED@infosec.pub @RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip
@programmer_humor@programming.devI’d say LLM is a notepad client now.
If you use the formatting bar to format text, it unlocks the View→Markdown menu which has two options - Markdown or Syntax. This allows you to toggle seeing the source or formatted markdown.
If you do not use the formatting bar to format text, markdown is not enabled. I manually typed in text in markdown format and the menu didn’t un-grey.
You can go into the app settings and turn off formatting, which will hide the formatting toolbar.
I think you really have to work hard to be offended by this.
Additionally, for those Notepad Purists™ who are offended by any features being added… Tabs are handy. And having it auto-save drafts and auto-open them is also handy - for me. Maybe you don’t like that, but you can disable the auto-save in settings. Can’t turn off tabs, but you can set it to open in new windows, so pretty close to disabling that.
If this is what drives you over the edge to use Linux… okay, bud, have it your way - and I’m a Linux enthusiast, so I’m all for it. But being pissed off by something you have to specifically enable seems a bit silly to me. It’s the hallmark of fascism - “Other people have the right to exist! FUCK THAT!” - a little hyperbolic, but the principle is vaguely the same. :P (And what’s the internet without hyperbole? :) )
Markdown support is actual nice and useful.
This, but he’s yelling “plain text” instead of drainage.
Not embracing every bullshit data mining change tech companies shove down our throats is fascism, got it. An intelligent, well reasoned, not at all fucked up thing to say
Yes, you have accurately characterized what I said and didn’t miss any of it in the slightest. Well done, you. Congrats on not completely missing the entire point. I am honestly impressed by the complete lack of comprehension. Nicely done.
