Windows 11 Notepad to support markdown

7 points by andreynering

polywolf

I appreciate having a built-in Markdown WYSIWYG editor, I do not appreciate having it added to notepad.exe which imo should've remained minimal. To say nothing of the AI features.

lilac

I feel like markdown is reasonable in notepad as a setting you enable, but the default should be as minimal as possible (and the ai features are indeed entirely out of place–at least they can be turned off for now)
- jmiven
  
  To support the "default should be as minimal as possible" approach, this was released on January 21. A few days later, this CVE was released.
ChrisDenton

They have also added edit as a TUI that more or less fulfils the old role of notepad.
jaredkrinke

Can you just copy notepad.exe from an old install? That is my plan, once I have a Win11-capable computer. I see no obvious reason it wouldn’t work.

pekkavaa

Honest question: why not WordPad?

hwayne

Wordpad was removed from Windows for some arcane reason

carlana

John Gruber wept.

hwayne

Looks like it's been rolled out to everybody, that or I'm on the Insider build and didn't know it.

Notepad still doesn't have tabs-as-spaces or visible line numbers though