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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 protocolture »

dataflow wrote: post #268
0xy wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's more likely that Microsoft is vibe coding slop garbage to replace their core apps that were literally better. Windows 10 explorer.exe is 100x faster than Windows 11 explorer, it's not even close. It also signals the death knell for Windows native apps. Microsoft can't make them anymore. It won't be long until even Excel is a Electron sloplication.

> Windows 10 explorer.exe is 100x faster than Windows 11 explorer, it's not even close. I have a hard time believing this. I'm pretty sensitive to performance losses and I haven't noticed any difference between those. It wouldn't make sense either, given they should both host the same shell icon views. Are you sure the difference you're seeing is in explorer.exe? As opposed to something else, like a new shell extensi…

Its not faster bereft of context, its just bloated. If you have enough resource to throw at it, its roughly the same. Theres some specific things that can themselves be slower, the Windows 11 Start Menu has had a lot of words written about its new implementation.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by rabf »

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.

https://github.com/rabfulton/ViewMD

Markdown viewer for Linux

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by snvzz »

noinsight wrote: post #153
cogman10 wrote: post #132

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What I want in windows is Notepad++ or Kate (and even Kate is a bit much). That's the full extent of the features that I'd want in something like notepad. Adding RTF and a wysiwyg markdown editor is the last thing that I want from something like notepad. When I open notepad, I still want to see the characters that are present. Heck, I'd like to be able to see the difference between a space and a tab. I'd want to be a…

> Kate So install Kate? There's a Windows build.

And it can be easily installed with chocolatey, like:

choco install kate

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by sysguest »

zadikian wrote: post #261
j2kun wrote: post #189

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This is my favorite part of this story. Do you want remote code execution? Because [fixing things that aren't broken] is how you get remote code execution.

Meanwhile TextEdit on Mac always rendered HTML. Which seems useless until you realize it can also edit and save as HTML. So there's casually a wysiwyg web editor built into macOS that idk how many people use.

idk maybe TextEdit DOES have some rce not discovered yet?

maybe we should separate "real origianl text-only editor" from "fancy text editor"?

windows already got wordpad... why even lay a finger on textpad?

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by irishcoffee »

cwillu wrote: post #235
irishcoffee wrote: post #95

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I agree with you that vi is lighter than vim. I’ve seen more than a few instances of an OS just aliasing vi to vim. On that note, why are the keybindings for vi on a “modern” Ubuntu different from fedoras? I remember having to mess with ^H in a vimrc or something to that effect to mimic the behavior I was expecting.

Sounds like the terminal (not vi) you're using has different defaults; backspace and delete are the two common keys that vary.

That makes a lot of sense. I'll do some research on different terminal behaviors. Thanks!

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by lenkite »

dataflow wrote: post #268
0xy wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's more likely that Microsoft is vibe coding slop garbage to replace their core apps that were literally better. Windows 10 explorer.exe is 100x faster than Windows 11 explorer, it's not even close. It also signals the death knell for Windows native apps. Microsoft can't make them anymore. It won't be long until even Excel is a Electron sloplication.

> Windows 10 explorer.exe is 100x faster than Windows 11 explorer, it's not even close. I have a hard time believing this. I'm pretty sensitive to performance losses and I haven't noticed any difference between those. It wouldn't make sense either, given they should both host the same shell icon views. Are you sure the difference you're seeing is in explorer.exe? As opposed to something else, like a new shell extensi…

It is certainly perceptibly slow. Carried out a test on my 12 year old PC running Win-10 vs a new HP Win11 laptop of my friend which he bought in a hurry before price increases. Opened a directory of several thousand files with nested folders - much slower at navigation. Much slower at opening right-click menus. Much slower at pretty much everything.

M$ has now introduced web-latency into the desktop along with their adoption of web-tech into the OS. You gotta get used to staring at that spinning blue circle, counting the many precious moments of your life draining away.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by datenyan »

UqWBcuFx6NV4r wrote: post #288
datenyan wrote: post #203

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Glad (/s) to see the MBA-ification of tech companies continues uninterrupted as we enter the second half of the decade.

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> "adding rich text editing features to a text editor”

Yeah, we already had that. In the form of Wordpad. Which was EOL'd. And now we have Notepad with AI features.

Notepad was, and always should have been, a simple & lightweight text box for storing and editing text only files. If you wanted to edit something more complicated, you could use the other tool that was built into Windows specifically for that.

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