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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 zzrrt »

throw4re2ef wrote: post #80
somenameforme wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I remember a few years back there was an update where it would actually type the political message when you created a new text document. I abandoned it ever since. The creator is also very selective about the type of politics he supports.

> The creator is also very selective about the type of politics he supports.

Why would someone express political messages without being selective? It’s understandable not wanting overt politics in your software, but this line is odd.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by noinsight »

cogman10 wrote: post #132
ActionHank wrote: post #113

This 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.

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.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

wk_end wrote: post #109
somenameforme wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I think that different people want different things. It seems to me like these days the idea of software being a personal expression is in vogue more than not, but there are always going to be those who want that and those who don't.

That said, if software is a personal creative expression, one must be prepared for the possibility that some people aren't going to like what one has to say. Often when the politics angle comes up with Notepad++, people will say "it's his software project, he has the right to put in political messages if he wants" as if that somehow compels people to be ok with the political messages. The author certainly has the right to use Notepad++ as a platform for his political opinions, and I would never dream of saying otherwise. I don't want him to go to jail, or get fired by his employer, or anything like that. But I similarly have the right to decide that I don't want to see his political opinions and use another piece of software. You pick up both ends of the stick, as the old saying says.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by seanthemon »

cogman10 wrote: post #135
LatencyKills wrote: post #126

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I was an engineer on the Visual Studio team. Internally, the Notepad project existed to provide a minimal, shippable product that we could use as a testbed. We used it to validate everything from compiler changes to kernel32 loader behavior on beta versions of Windows. If Notepad didn’t run, your feature didn’t work. This doesn't seem like a good idea.

Well, you see, they got rid of all the QA so those tests stopped adding value ;)

they have AI, they don't need QA or tests, come on man, aren't you a 9999999x engineer?

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by SllX »

deafpolygon wrote: post #144
ronsor wrote: post #136

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They could've shoved Copilot in Wordpad

And it would still compete with Word. They want you to switch to Office 365 (I mean, Copilot 365).

You jest but they did name change it to Microsoft 365.

Confused the hell out of me recently when I was looking for Office 365 on their website.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_365

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by cogman10 »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh I've ditched windows or I would go grab Kate (I use it on my linux box). I'm just commenting on how even if you were to enrich the features of notepad, the direction to take it is towards a kate editor and not towards an wordpad editor.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by inetknght »

jajuuka wrote: post #42
p_ing wrote: post #12

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Just disable Copilot?

Here's an even crazier idea, don't click the Copilot button. WHOA.

Easiest way to do that is to not have the Copilot button at all.

Easiest way to do that is to use Linux instead.

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