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I was about to make a joke about how I'm surprised they haven't shoved Copilot into Notepad yet, but surprise - they have ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enhance-your-wri... )
This might be the reason for Markdown support, LLMs love it.
Notepad's got Markdown, it's what LLMs crave.
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I love Notepad++ but yea, zero confidence in that dev right now. Its programma non grata on my machines at the moment. Theyre also very political and giving them access to my machine now feels even more risky.
Which response are we talking about which was problematic?
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Easiest way to do that is to not have the Copilot button at all. Easiest way to do that is to use Linux instead.
Of course. Story about Windows 11 someone has to chime in "just use Linux". I welcome it, because hopefully that will be less people having a meltdown over an icon on a menu bar.
There's a keyboard shortcut for it. I never figured out quite what it was, but every now and again Copilot would open itself while I was using Visual Studio or Emacs on my Windows 11 desktop PC. I assume I'm either hitting the shortcut, or a ghost key on my keyboard is stepping in and hitting it for me. (I could never reproduce this by pressing Windows+C.)
Copilot does stuff in the background. What stuff? I don't know. But, occasionally, on my desktop PC, I'd get a message box popping up saying that Copilot was unable to open this or that file. (Though, yes, perhaps it is just opening that file for no reason. Hard to say.)
(Both of these went away when I removed all the Copilot apps from the list of startup stuff.)
Copilot can be persuaded to get itself into a state where it expects you to log in. I had this happen on my old Windows 10 laptop somehow, when I logged in as my (local only) work user, something that existed to let me sign in to my old employer's Teams setup, their VPN, and use Remote Desktop to my work PC. And each time I logged in to my laptop, Copilot would pop up a login dialog. Though I can't deny that this was a handy reminder to remind me to quit it.
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>Are you moving the goalpost? I mean you did originally claim that this was something that was "for the masses" and then posted a solution that only someone technical could actually use. Not that I doubt it couldn't one shot something this simple with a .exe wrapper.
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This might be the reason for Markdown support, LLMs love it.
Well they're text generation engines, of course they do, it's all just text.
We know that markdown is text, we understand that text is text.
LLMs have very obviously been intentionally trained to work with markdown, specifically. Its prominence in LLM output far outweighs the real-world existence of raw Markdown online.
That’s the point that was being made.
What’s next. Are you going to say stochastic parrot?
step 1: remove wordpad step 2: omg there's demand for features step 3: turn notepad, whose point was to be a dumb simple thing, into a wordpad step 4: get a raise because you "solved" the problem
Glad (/s) to see the MBA-ification of tech companies continues uninterrupted as we enter the second half of the decade.
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...
EDIT: yes it does and it has actually been updated yesterday.