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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.
If for some reason you're stuck on windows, might I recommend notepad++ ?
Kate is great and available for Windows, too!
But also beware as notepad++ has had a security breach recently.
So has everything.
A text editor shouldn't be having security breaches.
Technically it was the server for updates that got breached, not the editor itself.
Neither should Windows itself. But here we are. And have been for some time.
Notepad's sole purpose is to remove formatting from copied text.
ctrl+shift+v is your friend
Doesn't work everywhere...
But but but that’s unacceptable!
Custom hotkey to trigger simple plaintext clipboard script, couldn’t live without it.
(“Script“ is a scary word for many of us but you probably only ever see the code once or instead use some free open source clipboard manager that has “replace clipboard with plain text“ built-in.)
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Anyway you’re right, I probably still use a similar workaround once a week!
Unsurprisingly Microsoft products are the least consistent with it
Isn't notepad an LLM client now?
Feels like everything is. Might as well describe every app by it‘s (now) secondary function.
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
Well, since you asked... I'm waiting for guile-emacs to make a breakout like neovim did.
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.
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++.
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
Wordpad? I'll stick to Word Perfect 5.1, thank you very much.
Word.
(or actually, Word. The one that ran on DOS and looked like an Emo version on QBASIC. I liked that thing).
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.
The Notepad getting junk added is a Microsoft Store app. The old notepad.exe is still usable.
wait what the frick since when were they updating Notepad
Since Microslop Windooze 11:Enshittified Edition.
Win 11 has been a privacy/anonymity/usability nightmare. Thanks in no small part to MS enshittifying absolutely every corner of it with AI. Right down to grabbing it by the notepad.
And that's why I still run Win10 with 0patch.
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.
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? :) )