Notepad going the way of Wordpad, EDIT.COM becoming the new Notepad.
What's next, in a few years we're rocking EDLIN when we need to operate on a text file safely?
Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
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Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#112Notepad++ 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
I don't find Notepad++ to be a good replacement for (the old) notepad, personally. It's too feature-filled. The big win of notepad was that it was genuinely minimalist.
It may have features, but you don't need to use them - and at least for me it starts up very quickly and none of those extras get in the way.
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#113This is why I uninstalled Notepad.
They are convinced it needs to be a worse vscode when all I want is something to edit plain text files.
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#114noooooo
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#115Markdown support isn't a bad idea, actually, as long as they don't break the most important (IMO) property of Notepad: binary WYSIWYG . I.e. if I type in some plain text and then open the file with anything else (including after moving to another machine/platform, or even viewing raw data stream in transit or on drive), I can trust to see that text, as is, and nothing else . In particular, if I restrict myself to low…
FWIW, Notepad has had support for BoM detection and wide-characters (UTF-16/UCS-16) for some while. That said, IMO, most simple editors at this point should default to UTF-8 encoding and only LF for line endings.
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#116Just 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.
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#117Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#118Notepad++ 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
I always liked Crimson/Emerald more myself.
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#119When I do agentic development with Claude Code, I use notepad to read/edit the .MD files, so this will make my life a little easier.
Why not use VSCode? It has native Claude Code integration and is literally designed for Markdown from the ground-up.
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#120Notepad going the way of Wordpad, EDIT.COM becoming the new Notepad. What's next, in a few years we're rocking EDLIN when we need to operate on a text file safely?