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Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by wk_end »

1bpp wrote: post #88
tmtvl wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> absolute lightweight > eMacs I love Emacs, but I don't see how a Lisp platform with a web browser, a Tetris implementation, and 4 terminal emulators (shell, term, ansi-term, eshell) can be considered 'lightweight'.

To be fair you can say that of anything with a scripting engine, you could have all that in vim or stripped down emacs

Anything with a scripting engine isn't lightweight compared to (classic) Notepad!

(Also, a lot of that stuff comes bundled with Emacs out-of-the-box, further disqualifying it. Having a scripting engine is one thing, but having a scripting engine along with the whole rest of the jet is something else entirely!)

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by deathanatos »

tmtvl wrote: post #48
SamuelAdams wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the absolute lightweight, there is vi, eMacs, nano, etc. For a UI I’ve been using VSCode. It is quite quick when you disable all extensions and most settings.

> absolute lightweight > eMacs I love Emacs, but I don't see how a Lisp platform with a web browser, a Tetris implementation, and 4 terminal emulators (shell, term, ansi-term, eshell) can be considered 'lightweight'.

As the old saying goes, "emacs is an operating system lacking only a decent text editor".

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by deafpolygon »

tracker1 wrote: post #93

I still say this is stupid AF, and that notepad should stay as simple as reasonable as a plain text editor and they should have resurrected "WordPad" for this purpose if they wanted it in Windows. I'm mixed on the enhancements to Paint... but this just feels a bit off. Maybe I'd mind it less if they put the new MS Edit in Windows by default, so again, there's a minimal plain text editor in the box.

Wordpad presented a “free” tool that they couldn’t monetize anymore. They want you to use Office. Copilot is shoved into Notepad so they can monetize your data stream.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by return_to_monke »

MoonWalk wrote: post #83

So the markup dialect that's widely used but suffers from a near-total lack of viewers will now finally be rendered as intended, at least on Windows? Markdown presents a chicken-&-egg scenario that has dragged on for decades: tons of Markdown documents, but almost nothing with which to simply view (not edit) them as intended. Mystifying.

The point of markdown is that it is human-readable not only in "rendered" html form, but plain text too.

I think this explains the lack of viewers; they are simply not needed.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by mkup »

dmitrygr wrote: post #96
Longhanks wrote: post #4

They’re turning Notepad into what Wordpad was (or was supposed to be). Now everyone looking for the light weightiest *.txt editor must find a new tool...

notepad.txt now joins calc.txt in my list of EXEs i bring from an old WinXPx64 install to all new windows installs

I also bring in the old paint from Vista. I never liked the new ribbon-based design from later version of Windows.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by tracker1 »

soupfordummies wrote: post #69
5o1ecist wrote: post #58

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Please show me the few sentence prompt to create a windows 10 level notepad.exe clone that I can quickly open and use by hitting win+r

I think Dave (of Dave's Garage) did this just a few months ago... I think there were some short-comings regarding wide character support (BoM detection, etc)... but it was pretty much a working Notepad.exe implementation.

FWIW, you can also get the new Edit implementation that's built with Rust and the Windows exe is 250kb...

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by wk_end »

somenameforme wrote: post #16
Longhanks wrote: post #4

They’re turning Notepad into what Wordpad was (or was supposed to be). Now everyone looking for the light weightiest *.txt editor must find a new tool...

notepad++ is great, though they have a dubious habit of dumping political messages on releases.

I don't have any use for Notepad++, but reading about this makes me wish I did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad%2B%2B#Political_messag...

The possibility of software being a personal, creative, expressive endeavor (which often includes politics), something I believed in back when I was in university twenty years ago, is a feeling that's receded deeply into the past. That might be as much about me as it is about the world, but I miss it.

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