They should have done this with Wordpad. Notepad should stay most basic editor.
Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
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Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#402Notepad urgently needs some social features too, did they think about adding stories and a messenger???
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#403Don't care never going to use it
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#404The new notepad is a buggy embarrassment. When you disable the "Continue previous session" option you can very easily lose unsaved changes:
0) Set "When Notepad starts" option to "Start new session and discard unsaved changes"
1) New file
2) Type "abc" - note the "X" to close the file changes to a "O" (pretend that's a circle) to indicate unsaved changes
3) Save file - "O" changes back to "X"
4) Type "def" - "X" changes back to "O" because "def" is not on the file on disk
5) Undo, "def" disappears, "O" incorrectly remains...
6) Redo, "def" reappears, "O" incorrectly changes back to "X"
7) Close file. No prompt to save unsaved "def". Reopen file. "def" is gone
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#405> Coloring book will be available only on Copilot+ PCs. To use Coloring book, you will need to sign in with your Microsoft account.
Can someone please explain why these two things are ever simultaneously true? You buy the stupid Copilot+ PC that has "AI" NPU hardware, right? So the AI features should be able to run locally. But if you have to sign in with a Microsoft account, then surely, it doesn't run locally, which begs the question, why does it require a Copilot+ PC at all?
Not even going to bother asking "does anybody want this to begin with" because at this point there is no real need to bother asking that.
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#406Can Microsoft please stop? If I need Copilot and Markdown Support I use VS Code or any other software that supports it. I recently used Windows Sandbox and was surprised that it does not have notepad. And why? Because it's a Store App now and that's unsupported inside the Windows Sandbox. Notepad is supposed to be dumb, not Microsoft!
> Can Microsoft please stop? If I need Copilot and Markdown Support I use VS Code or any other software that supports it. I can't even get visual studio code to stop showing that right-hand sidebar every time it opens up, regardless of what settings I use. It seems to work for a while, and then it appears again like magic. I'm not sure how many more times they have to hit you straight in the face before you realize y…
There's a setting in barcode that disabled AI entirely and the sidebar with it. Works flawless for me since it landed.
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#407Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 sor…
One of the first projects I made while learning to code was a calculator.
It wasn't very sophisticated. But it was fast and it handled commas and periods. It wasn't localized, but it could be.
Sad to think that me having a month of coding experience made a better product than MSFT, yet whoever coded the calculator is probably making ten times what I am right now.
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#408Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's weird is that AI is supposed to make development easy enough that native applications are just as fast to build than web apps Somehow in this timeline AI can only be used to make things worse and sloppier
The engineers running the AI have to still be good. AI code that isn't properly guided and controlled by an engineer is just as sloppy as the human behind it. AI is an accelerate for programming, but some developers create horrible code before AI, snd AI won't change that. It just lets them do it faster.
I agree, but given the breadth of slop we are seeing now, I think it's safe to say the average AI-accelerated developer are bad coders.
That being said, no one ever looked at good code and said "that's AI gold," so opinions may be skewed.
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#409Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I thought it is by introducing an RCE vulnerability that you get an RCE vulnerability. I'm being facetious of course, but this recent rhetorical trend of people confidently vouching for "pet" in "pet vs. cattle" is not a sustainable decision, even if it's admittedly plain practical on the short to medium run, or in given contexts even longer. It's just a dangerous and irresponsible lesson to blindly repeat I think. C…
What does pet" in "pet vs. cattle" mean?
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#410Where does current Notepad store its settings? How could I distribute settings to new users, eg. by applying a reg file?
It looks like to me that it stores its settings at "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings\settings.dat", which is some binary format.
Why is registry being abandoned? If it is, why isn't ini or json or a plain text format used? Who are working at Microsoft now, abandoning both the windows ways to approach tasks, and also the other generic sane default approaches?