so it's minime word now?
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Notepad went from simple to having an identity crisis.
I hate this person. It makes me want to scream. One of the dumbest stupidest things about Windows is a fucking useless programs go on with it that haven't been updated in 20 years. Please update them. You want to update notepad? Go look at Notepad+. Please please please update all the shitty little programs that exist around Windows that no one uses cause they're so goddamn shitty.
Holy fuck update Windows programs. For the love of God update ALL the Windows programs. Make the goddamn search tool work. Make the goddamn voice to text work. Make the image viewer not suck. Please don't listen to the people who are resistant to change. Leave an old shitty version on there just for them, but please please make Windows programs better because they suck right now!!
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Isn't notepad an LLM client now?
Feels like everything is. Might as well describe every app by it‘s (now) secondary function.
Some apps just have it as primary function now...
Waiting for the rename to copad AI.
CopePad
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Notepad's sole purpose is to remove formatting from copied text.
You can use Neovim (or any CLI text editor) for that
ctrl+shift+v is your friend
Doesn't work everywhere...
Unsurprisingly Microsoft products are the least consistent with it
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Not always (looking angrily at you Outlook, meanwhile your brother Excel excels (ha!) at doing this while inputting data).
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So… they removed Wordpad to push people into using Word… and now they removed Notepad to push people into… this monstrosity? Why does Notepad support hyperlinks now?
Back when I used Notepad, it was to strip out rich text formatting and reliably get consistently distinct text, especially if I configured it to use a monospace font. Now I have to worry about embedded hyperlinks sending me to God-knows-where?
If you are stuck in Windows, use Notepad++.
Control + Shift + V pastes as plain text.
*sometimes
I always thought the default font used by notepad, courier, is monospace. But I mostly stopped using windows years ago so maybe that changed
notepad has formatting now? o_O
does it produce markdown or something?
Yep it’s markdown, and yep they had a CVE with second highest grade cause of it
heh, ofc. Apparently something to do with file:// and such uri handling, apparently executing local files? Yikes.
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It's a UWP (i think? they renamed the platform twice already) vibecoded app now, notepad.exe still around.
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Notepad++ gang, rise, claim your kingdom.
Well it's a 23y old application that had one issue where the dev's machine got infected, and it was handled ~instantly.
What's the actual problem here?
This isn't the first time that application has had problems either, the CIA hacked it because it was loading unsigned DLLs: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v733-fix-cia-hacking-npp-issue/
To be fair it's one of the most popular text editors so it's not surprising nation states would target them, and it's hard to block someone with those kinds of resources.
Instantly? The article says “lasted for almost half a year”
We're talking geologic timescales here. Did you miss the memo?
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Kate FTW!
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the point and strength of notepad was that it opened immediately, no bullshit, you can write text and that's all.
I suspect that's not the case anymore.
Nope, now (by default) it opens all the files you had open the last time you used Notepad. You can turn it off, but it's annoying.
The Notepad getting junk added is a Microsoft Store app. The old notepad.exe is still usable.
And as for all things Windows 11 a tutorial is needed to painstakingly wade through every inch of bullshit.
Huh. That write up seems pretty useful. It's so weird that the redesigned app is just an alias to the old and untouched app that's still sitting in system32
Probably as usual: Legacy reasons.
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I’ve totally fallen for markdown. I want more normies to know about it.
All the nice things about rich text with none of the Word.
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My week as a windows forced office worker just peaked having seen this meme.
Notepad, the app I literally only ever use accidentally, or to edit a PC's hosts file.. Ah yes, this definitely needs CoPilot and markdown formatting.
All it needed was a dark mode to match modern Windows light/dark theming, done.
The additional shit (markdown, CoPilot?!) is just noise, intrusions, and vulnerabilities.
I mean you're right, but also look at what emacs or vim are doing on the linux side. Overloading your notepad application is hardly a concept birthed on Windows.
I'd argue the Linux equivalent is more something like nano, and I wouldn't say nano is overloaded
Vim has kept to simple sanity.
We don't talk about LazyVim.
Edit: I heard Emacs might be getting a text editor added soon.
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Are you saying that extensibility is the same thing as bloat? Weird take if so.