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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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 8 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

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