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Seriously, just stop (or use Linux) (media.piefed.zip)

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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 1 day ago

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 1 day ago

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 23 hours ago

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

[-] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 22 hours ago

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

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 22 hours ago

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 22 hours 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

You have to manually switch the display mode from raw to formatted for the formatting to show.
It only works for saved .md files.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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.