I actually welcome this. Markdown is this incredible, future proof, portable and elegant format… up until you have to collaborate on something with a normie
Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
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Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#372It doesn't support basic code/monospace blocks using backticks: > Unsupported Syntax Detected > This file contains syntax that isn't fully supported in formatted view. Some content may not render as intended, and switching views could modify parts of your original Markdown. Do you want to continue?
So custom implementation, then? How very Microsoft.
Even funnier when you remember that they own github, the place where arguably markdown was popularized.
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#373So 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.
The point of markdown is that it is human-readable not only in "rendered" html form, but plain text too. I think this explains the lack of viewers; they are simply not needed.
That doesn't explain it since that point is theoretical, in reality markdown is poorly readable even for the basics (table with a few bold red words in a cell easily breaks alignment / readability)
(also seeing all those marks isn't aesthetically good, hence the need for a viewer)
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#374I 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.
The minimal text editor shipped with Windows is now Edit https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/edit/
It isn't minimal since it depends on a terminal
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#375OneNote should officially get this as well.
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#377Earlier 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…
The Windows computer I have to use at work takes over ten seconds to open the calculator. It literally is faster to type the calculation I want into a search engine and get the results back over the network.
The new calculator even manages to screw up basic input. The old calculator accepted both commas and periods as decimal separator inputs. It just worked no matter what I typed in. The new calculator has some sort of "clever" localization where my inputs change depending on the language of the operating system. My language uses commas so of course it only accepts those. Infuriating. Hope whoever coded this is enjoying their promotion.
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#378just nuke notepad in favor of zen-mode vscode. It has everything you want from text editor and it does it quite well
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#379Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#380After 30 years on windows I recently switched my gaming desktop over to linux mint. So far proton has handled every game I've thrown at it with only a minor FPS hit. Do note that I only play older games so if you are a bleeding edge gamer it will probably be harder for you. But the peace of mind I get from not being tied to the spyware infected microsoft ecosystem has been well worth it, and the only cost was backing up data from windows for the switch, and the inevitable linux fiddling that's required.