Isn't notepad an LLM client now?
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Feels like everything is. Might as well describe every app by it‘s (now) secondary function.
Some apps just have it as primary function now...
Waiting for the rename to copad AI.
CopePad
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I'd say LLM is a notepad client now.
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Notepad's sole purpose is to remove formatting from copied text.
ctrl+shift+v is your friend
Doesn't work everywhere...
Unsurprisingly Microsoft products are the least consistent with it
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Not always (looking angrily at you Outlook, meanwhile your brother Excel excels (ha!) at doing this while inputting data).
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That command gives me a bunch of more hoops to jump through
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So… they removed Wordpad to push people into using Word… and now they removed Notepad to push people into… this monstrosity? Why does Notepad support hyperlinks now?
Back when I used Notepad, it was to strip out rich text formatting and reliably get consistently distinct text, especially if I configured it to use a monospace font. Now I have to worry about embedded hyperlinks sending me to God-knows-where?
If you are stuck in Windows, use Notepad++.
Control + Shift + V pastes as plain text.
*sometimes
I always thought the default font used by notepad, courier, is monospace. But I mostly stopped using windows years ago so maybe that changed
notepad has formatting now? o_O
does it produce markdown or something?
Yep it’s markdown, and yep they had a CVE with second highest grade cause of it
heh, ofc. Apparently something to do with file:// and such uri handling, apparently executing local files? Yikes.
not just local files
if you click a link to file:///123.45.67.89:69420/files-download/virus.exe it will download and run virus.exe
it still works, but now there is a "Dangerous Link Location: This is not a web link and may lead to the execution of malicious code" warning, but previously it would silently run the file.
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Aren't CVE grades meaningless anyway with how they are declared in real world?
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It's a UWP (i think? they renamed the platform twice already) vibecoded app now, notepad.exe still around.
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Tabs were a welcome addition.
What we needed was a built-in hex editor, and maybe some better tools for working with unicode that you can't just type in on whatever keyboard you have.
Instead, they turned it into WordPad, which we already have.
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the point and strength of notepad was that it opened immediately, no bullshit, you can write text and that's all.
I suspect that's not the case anymore.
Nope, now (by default) it opens all the files you had open the last time you used Notepad. You can turn it off, but it's annoying.
The Notepad getting junk added is a Microsoft Store app. The old notepad.exe is still usable.
And as for all things Windows 11 a tutorial is needed to painstakingly wade through every inch of bullshit.
Huh. That write up seems pretty useful. It's so weird that the redesigned app is just an alias to the old and untouched app that's still sitting in system32
Same way the rest of the OS is built.
All those fucked up snapins and apps and pretty pretty nonfunctional interfaces (try changing an ip) are utterly negated by start-run-"control"
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If for some reason you're stuck on windows, might I recommend notepad++ ?
Kate is great and available for Windows, too!
But also beware as notepad++ has had a security breach recently.
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I’ve totally fallen for markdown. I want more normies to know about it.
All the nice things about rich text with none of the Word.
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I mean you're right, but also look at what emacs or vim are doing on the linux side. Overloading your notepad application is hardly a concept birthed on Windows.
I'd argue the Linux equivalent is more something like nano, and I wouldn't say nano is overloaded
Vim has kept to simple sanity.
We don't talk about LazyVim.
Edit: I heard Emacs might be getting a text editor added soon.
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My week as a windows forced office worker just peaked having seen this meme.
Notepad, the app I literally only ever use accidentally, or to edit a PC's hosts file.. Ah yes, this definitely needs CoPilot and markdown formatting.
All it needed was a dark mode to match modern Windows light/dark theming, done.
The additional shit (markdown, CoPilot?!) is just noise, intrusions, and vulnerabilities.
GNU EMACS is RIGHT THERE in WINDOWS
You can INSTALL IT
(Well you can't install it, you kinda just dump it in Program Files)
PEOPLE have been EXTENDING it for DECADES SAFELY
WHAT are you WAITING FOR
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Wasn't there a lurking edit.exe or edit.cmd somewhere inside C:\WINDOWS\system32? Would make an interesting replacement to the enshittified "Not-e-pad". But, then, I haven't used Windows since Windows 10 was still a novelty (and what definitely pushed me to Linux... Arch Linux btw), so maybe I'm very old ("I'm old, Dean, very old") to recall of a MS-DOS relic.
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