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Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown (winblogs.thesourcemediaassets.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

We are expanding support of lightweight formatting to include additional Markdown syntax features. This includes strikethrough formatting and nested lists. To get started, explore these new options in the formatting toolbar, keyboard shortcuts, or by editing the Markdown syntax directly.

Source: Microsoft.

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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fortunately this has already been patched but still, what a fuckup

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Well the situation explained is a glaring oversight assuming the average Windows user's opsec common sense, but I'm amazed Notepad isn't auto-running every single linked file automatically during parsing

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jesus fucking christ so the fucking idiots really full on dont even try to test any of the shit they facefuck into 1.4 billion innocent pc's with every update they release.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

they let Copilot run tests and it all passed, no worries