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Notepad should be last thing they should be fiddling with.
I am sad that we have to install 3rd parties for basics now.
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... )
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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.
I welcome it, because hopefully that will be less people having a meltdown over an icon on a menu bar.
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notepad++ is great, though they have a dubious habit of dumping political messages on releases.
Sublime is good too without the political rhetoric. It boggles my mind that windows users refuse the ways of vim.
Why is progress always assumed to be about adding more stuff? Sometimes, taking something away would be best, but humans tend to overlook it. Article: People systematically overlook subtractive changes - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03380-y
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.
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
Why is progress always assumed to be about adding more stuff? Sometimes, taking something away would be best, but humans tend to overlook it. Article: People systematically overlook subtractive changes - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03380-y
I for one hate it when product managers update systems to make them simpler and remove features/settings that I depend on.
Notepad++ 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