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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 torginus »

egorfine wrote: post #448
torginus wrote: post #424

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I feel the deepest existential pain in my heart that despite companies being 'all in' on AI, they can't integrate anything meaningful that would make sense to the end use, but would require even a braincells worth of mental effort of ML expertise or actual requirements people have. My two favourite 'AI' tools in image editing have been ones that can replace tedious work. One such example are segmentation models that…

Proper color fill will not make shareholders happy while AI-powered image color replacement will.

I have like 3 Microsoft shares, and it would have made me happy :(

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by RHSeeger »

alwa wrote: post #434
perching_aix wrote: post #431

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If I told you to stop using computers, and then you won't have computer problems, I don't think you would find that particularly helpful or charitable either, would you? What you find a trusty "low-level" tool is a demo application for a basic WYSIWYG text editor. They modernized it so that it remains being perceived that way, instead of letting it be increasingly misclassified as a legacy product for the enthusiast,…

I thought "basic WYSIWYG text editor" was more WordPad's lane, no? May it rest...

That was my first thought... Notepad is a plain text editor. Why add formatted text options when there's no good reason for it?

Plus, judging by the image, it doesn't look like there's controls to interact with the plain text markdown. It seems more like it's a "you can use markdown _codes_ to trigger text formatting. Jira has exactly this, and it's horrible.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by andreynering »

vyskocilm wrote: post #209

At this moment ReactOS guys should consider distributing their apps separatelly from their bundle. https://github.com/reactos/reactos/tree/master/base/applicat...

This would be really interesting, actually.

Maybe someone should submit a feature request for it.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by RHSeeger »

protocolture wrote: post #301
dataflow wrote: post #268

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> 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.

That _is_ slower. The fact that it's possible to throw enough resources at it that both "look" the same speed, doesn't change the fact that one of them is 10x slower.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by matheusmoreira »

angry_octet wrote: post #444
matheusmoreira wrote: post #377

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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…

Is that Windows, or the EDR that is hooking every system call and pinning a whole core with analytics?

The old notepad would still open instantly so that can't be it. The updated machines with the new notepad are just as infuriating.

Reminds me of the shitty gamer laptop manufacturer apps that would take over a minute to display a glorified rectangle on the screen. All this to configure keyboard LEDs. I reverse engineered that garbage and made a Linux version that works instantly, proving their incompetence.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by L0Wigh »

p_ing wrote: post #267
Thanemate wrote: post #53

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What happened to "just enable X if you need it"? Why are we always okay with every new thing being enabled by default? Is it because the average person isn't as tech savvy as most (if not all) HN readers to know any better, and those companies want the headcount of usage to look high to please stakeholders? Enshittification at its finest stink.

Where have you been for the past umpteenth years of computing where even in the Linux kernel stuff is enabled by default, let alone userland applications.

Comparing Linux kernel options enabled by default for compatibility and a plague that is only useful when a user asks for it... That's wild

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by sorenjan »

nxobject wrote: post #453
NooneAtAll3 wrote: post #175

step 1: remove wordpad step 2: omg there's demand for features step 3: turn notepad, whose point was to be a dumb simple thing, into a wordpad step 4: get a raise because you "solved" the problem

Step 5: reintroduce a plain-text editor [1] Step 6: GOTO 1. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/edit

It hasn't gotten to that point yet, but the maintainer of edit wants to add a lot of features to it.

Make Microsoft Edit a Lightweight 'VS Code for the Terminal' - https://github.com/microsoft/edit/discussions/682

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by staticman2 »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #475
angry_octet wrote: post #444

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Is that Windows, or the EDR that is hooking every system call and pinning a whole core with analytics?

The old notepad would still open instantly so that can't be it. The updated machines with the new notepad are just as infuriating. Reminds me of the shitty gamer laptop manufacturer apps that would take over a minute to display a glorified rectangle on the screen. All this to configure keyboard LEDs. I reverse engineered that garbage and made a Linux version that works instantly , proving their incompetence.

If your work computer is taking 10 seconds to open the calculator something is very odd since my windows 11 work computer opens it just fine.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by reef_sh »

OoooooooO wrote: post #460
reef_sh wrote: post #446

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You can actually restore the old right-click menu on W11 with some regedit. Not ideal in any way, and a setting would have been a much better way to toggle this, but it is an option.

You can't edit the registry without admin rights which you don't have on a work laptop.

Yeah that's a fair point.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by reef_sh »

brazzy wrote: post #458
reef_sh wrote: post #446

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You can actually restore the old right-click menu on W11 with some regedit. Not ideal in any way, and a setting would have been a much better way to toggle this, but it is an option.

The problem is that the old righ-click menu is ALSO much slower on Windows 11. Shows a fucking spinner for half a second before the menu appears.

I've found that ( at least for me ) that was caused by some entries doing some checks before showing up. Getting a context menu editor and removing some of them can help.
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