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But Notepad doesn't, so it shouldn't render .md files, it should just show the markdown code.
They keep adding stuff to notepad that no one was asking for. Like tabs and saving on exit, which breaks the workflow of having notepad be a throwaway scratch pad.
Notepad saves on exit now? Wtf.
Have been for a while now. In neat (read: horrible) little tabs that never go away unless you manually force them to.
dude, Notepad even has Copilot now
I never ~~upgraded~~ downgraded to Win11 so I haven't seen a lot of this BS.
yeah, I switched to Linux on my personal computers once I noticed ads in the start menu, my work computer has win11, though
Fucking hell i have notepad++ for that shit.
Average users don't need that functionality , and those that do already don't use notepad for it
I... Have some really unfortunate news for you
Jokes on you I haven't updated that program since 2019.
edit: an number
Funnily enough, you used as an example the only new feature I actually like and rely on. I use it for things like PWs for shared service accounts (dont @ me, I know it's bad practice and our org does have a pw manager but these accounts aren't managed by it and I am not in control of them)
Also useful for things that are needed temporarily but I dont know how long that 'temporary' is going to be.
keeppassxc for local password manager. More secure and more helpful UI for that very purpose, also can hold your top and let you ctrl-t the current number into to clipboard.
Good advice, but unfortuntlately my org is pretty strict about using unnaproved software and that's definitely not on the approved list lol
Does notepad even have syntax highlighting?
They should make the web browser render.md. that would be far more useful.
My god it's useless. It's the most limited markdown editor in the world. It lacks so much basic function that you would have to download an actual markdown editor if you were ever going to use it, so there's no point in notepad having the functionality, and then at the end of the day it's in a file format that basically doesn't exist outside of the web.
Microsoft Word cannot open it. So a Microsoft text editor program, can create a file that a different Microsoft text editor program can't read, despite markdown being a supposedly universal standard. Wow.
It doesn't. Whether that remains the case remains to be seen.