Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

Posted by andreynering 17 hours ago

Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown(blogs.windows.com)

269 points | 410 commentspage 8

nurumaik 6 hours ago|

just nuke notepad in favor of zen-mode vscode. It has everything you want from text editor and it does it quite well

BenFranklin100 6 hours ago||

OneNote should officially get this as well.

helle253 16 hours ago||

Notepad++ already exists, is more reliable, and already has a md support plugin

recent vuln asside (big caveat ill admit) idk why you would use notepad at all when N++ exists

JohnFen 15 hours ago||

I don't find Notepad++ to be a good replacement for (the old) notepad, personally. It's too feature-filled. The big win of notepad was that it was genuinely minimalist.

Night_Thastus 14 hours ago||

It may have features, but you don't need to use them - and at least for me it starts up very quickly and none of those extras get in the way.

fastasucan 13 hours ago|||

If you dont need any of the ++ why would you use notepad++ over notepad?

Dylan16807 12 hours ago||

I think just about anyone can appreciate having multiple undos. And keeping your unsaved notes safe against crash/reboot.

I do think notepad recently got those, but for a long time it was a compelling reason to use notepad++.

And you can avoid copilot.

tracker1 13 hours ago||

I always liked Crimson/Emerald more myself.

VimEscapeArtist 9 hours ago||

10 IoT LTSC ftw!

kgwxd 14 hours ago||

Just include Visual Studio Code, leave Notepad alone. Edit: On second thought, go ahead. I'm already off the OS, exactly because of things like this. The less relevant the OS becomes, the better my life will be.

deafpolygon 14 hours ago||

> Coloring book will be available only on Copilot+ PCs. To use Coloring book, you will need to sign in with your Microsoft account.

Oh boy.

whynotmaybe 7 hours ago|

Are they trying to market copilot PC's to another segment?

CivBase 17 hours ago||

Is the value add for Notepad not that it is litterally the most bare bones graphical text editor available in Windows?

Microsoft has already positioned VS Code as its code editor and OneNote as its notetaking app. Why should Notepad compete with these offerings?

akgoel 14 hours ago||

In a Copilot world, Notepad is now meant to render Copilot output, which LLMs do a good job of spitting out Markdown.

avadodin 1 hour ago||

Why not remove the human trying to use Windows from the loop and have a server at Redmond feeding Copilot slop to a Copilot agent on the next server forever?

Anyone's got the CEO's number?

Tell him I don't charge for my genius management advice most of the time.

embedding-shape 17 hours ago||

Why not? Microsoft's approach seems to be "the more the merrier" even if they have the same intended audiences. Not sure how it makes sense, but considering the company is still around, maybe in some twisted way it does make sense?

CivBase 13 hours ago||

I'd think the answer to "why not?" would be because in being a bare bones, dead simple text editor is Notepad's core feature. And by adding these redundant featues, they are effectively removing Notepad's core feature without even providing a replacement.

shevy-java 10 hours ago||

A little bit slow, Mr. Microsoft ...

jimt1234 11 hours ago||

Leave Notepad alone!

( In case you forgot: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vw1rMkUFqyc )

nnevatie 14 hours ago|

Oh look. Another random and unneeded feature appears in their legacy tool.

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