Programmer Humor

Isn't notepad an LLM client now?

Notepad's sole purpose is to remove formatting from copied text.

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?

notepad has formatting now? o_O

does it produce markdown or something?

Notepad++ gang, rise, claim your kingdom.

If for some reason you're stuck on windows, might I recommend notepad++ ?

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.

Tabs were a welcome addition, but that's where the good idea train swiftly leaves the rails.

What we needed was a built-in hex editor, and maybe some better tools for working with unicode that you can't just type in on whatever keyboard you have.

Instead, they turned it into WordPad, which we already have.

The Notepad getting junk added is a Microsoft Store app. The old notepad.exe is still usable.

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.

Unfortunately it has a use. Microsoft discontinued WordPad

If you use the formatting bar to format text, it unlocks the View→Markdown menu which has two options - Markdown or Syntax. This allows you to toggle seeing the source or formatted markdown.

If you do not use the formatting bar to format text, markdown is not enabled. I manually typed in text in markdown format and the menu didn't un-grey.

You can go into the app settings and turn off formatting, which will hide the formatting toolbar.

I think you really have to work hard to be offended by this.

Additionally, for those Notepad Purists™ who are offended by any features being added… Tabs are handy. And having it auto-save drafts and auto-open them is also handy - for me. Maybe you don't like that, but you can disable the auto-save in settings. Can't turn off tabs, but you can set it to open in new windows, so pretty close to disabling that.

If this is what drives you over the edge to use Linux........ okay, bud, have it your way - and I'm a Linux enthusiast, so I'm all for it. But being pissed off by something you have to specifically enable seems a bit silly to me. It's the hallmark of fascism - "Other people have the right to exist! FUCK THAT!" - a little hyperbolic, but the principle is vaguely the same. :P (And what's the internet without hyperbole? :) )

My week as a windows forced office worker just peaked having seen this meme.

GNU EMACS is RIGHT THERE in WINDOWS
You can INSTALL IT
(Well you can't install it, you kinda just dump it in Program Files)
PEOPLE have been EXTENDING it for DECADES SAFELY
WHAT are you WAITING FOR

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 understand Notepad++ is pretty cool?

https://github.com/microsoft/edit

They also introduced a critical security vulnerability into notepad where they just had the markdown links shell execute open link which allowed just installing arbitrary software as long as the link was valid instead of just opening a browser.

If you managed to get the file onto a person's you could execute it by having the person click on the link.