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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Its not even wordpad. It only supports markdown not rtf... it only exists so they could easily shove copilot into it.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I get the saltiness about Copilot but this is getting ridiculous.

It got dark mode, sessions, tabs, and a Markdown viewer. How are these bad changes? How do these "only exist so they could easily shove Copilot into" them?

(btw, you can disable Copilot from Notepad with three clicks)

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Notepad was supposed to be the simplest lightest weight text editor. It didn't need to change.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's try from a different angle: which functionalities of Notepad have been lost?

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well I'm not on Windows anymore so I can't test it out. Does it still have the option to only show text raw and uninterpeted? I absolutely would not want it to, like, show bold instead of **bold**

I wouldn't want it to do anything other than show the literal text, and anything in that direction is a loss via added friction.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Does it still have the option to only show text raw and uninterpeted? I absolutely would not want it to, like, show bold instead of bold

  1. You have to manually switch the display mode from raw to formatted for the formatting to show.
  2. It only works for saved .md files.
[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

True, but IMO it makes a lot more sense to support markdown under Wordpad than Notepad since the controls and doc-style layout/rendering support is already there.

it only exists so they could easily shove copilot into it.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

hex

Does windows power toys have one?

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

No idea. I want to say 'yes', but the last time I installed Power Toys was under Win2k.