No, thank you, it's become slow as hell in Windows 11, just like the Explorer and the Windows itself. Windows is a piece of garbage.
Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
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Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#512Once upon a time, you could strip formatting from the clipboard in notepad with ^V ^A ^C, for example if you were trying to paste from edge into word. There's still a market for a non-rich text editor, without autosave, cloud, account login or AI.
If you don't care about losing line breaks, I've used my browser's URL bar for this for years.
Cmd-L Cmd-V Cmd-A Cmd-C
(swap for Cmd for Ctrl on non-Mac)
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#513Man ... Notepad did one thing, and it did it well. Leave it to Microsoft to completely mess it up. RIP Notepad.
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#514Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Oh god no, it's not the maintainer. It's frankly a student with no prior experience in both the language and the codebase, asking the maintainer permission for pushing a lot of ai generated code with chatgpt for his resume? Atleast he has the decency to ask for stuff first and being straight. Hilarious comment by the way https://github.com/microsoft/edit/discussions/682#discussion...
The maintainer is the first comment, agreeing with the post author:
> I concur, but there are two issues with this: Building the foundation of an editor is way harder than building features later on top of that, and currently it is unlikely that Microsoft will fund me to spend half a year working purely on this project. So, I'll work on this whenever I can, which is not much.
Maybe they're referring to the plugin system they want to implement: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/17
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#515I 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... )
If you want to make a joke, you can suggest it as a new feature from the parameters of Microsoft To Do. Seems like the only Microsoft app that doesn't yet have it... BTW it can be disabled in Notepad settings.
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#517Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah that’s fair. It’s also sort of a given that anyone on this site is pretty well versed with technical stuff so maybe results would vary with Tina over in HR, for instance. I think that sort of “last mile” problem is what agents like claw etc are supposed to help with. Also, any reason you prefer Perplexity? Haven’t really used that one before TBH
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Thanks for the detailed response, lol. Seems like it’s more personally tailorable than some of the others. Gonna give it a try with some similar vibe coding ideas
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#518Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like EmEditor, it has a compact ui and some useful features, and 16TB file support -- https://www.emeditor.com/
The whole point of Notepad was its bare bones simplicity. EmEditor looks like it’s loaded full of stuff, and has a subscription fee. Assuming most people don’t need to open 16TB files, they might as well use VS Code.
You're not wrong, and I could have elaborated. While loaded with stuff, I find the ui can be pared down, and has a similar load time and screen space as notepad.
The subscription isn't awesome, but it works fine without it, and doesn't pester alot
Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
#519The 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" chan…
5) is common across several other editors and you could argue about correct semantics, but yes 6) is obviously a bug.
Agreed... 5) is minor and just the result of saying "We're not going to bother trying to track if a file goes from having unsaved changes to not as a result of undo/redo - once a file gets marked as having unsaved changes, the only way to 'clear' that is to save the file again."
That option is much better than getting the undo/redo vs unsaved changes tracking wrong and allowing unsaved changes to be easily lost, like notepad does. :-P
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> if you have enough resource to throw at it An i9 with 128GB RAM isn’t enough resources to open a menu?
I dont know what to tell you. I have endless user complaints at i5 16GB RAM, and none at i5 32GB RAM. Not to mention that I run 32 myself and its mostly fine. I can open menus.
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