Programmer Humor

Wordpad? I'll stick to Word Perfect 5.1, thank you very much.

If for some reason you're stuck on windows, might I recommend notepad++ ?

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

As much as I liked old notepad, it is a pretty decent markdown editor.

wait what the frick since when were they updating Notepad

Unfortunately it has a use. Microsoft discontinued WordPad

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.

Notepad's sole purpose is to remove formatting from copied text.

Its really a shame. Every OS needs a simple text editor, possibly without formatting support of any kind. You're not supposed to use it, it just makes it possible to edit basic configurations on the fly and things like that. Instead they support half of word pad and cram in copilot for some reason.
Although I do admit, I haven't seen the need to move away from kwrite for a long time. Basic text editor that does what it should and does it right!

Isn't notepad an LLM client now?

Both classic Notepad and classic WordPad can be downloaded and installed from third-party sites.

However, to thoroughly neuter the enshittified versions and ensure the classic versions are used in all workflows can take a bit more than what the installers recommend. Primarily, I would recommend adding the *.bak extension to the enshittified versions then make (IIRC) junction links from the classic ones to where the enshittified ones are sitting. This ensures that if anything reaches for the enshittified ones, the junction links are there to redirect the action to the classic versions.

The Notepad getting junk added is a Microsoft Store app. The old notepad.exe is still usable.

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?

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.

notepad has formatting now? o_O

does it produce markdown or something?

Notepad++ gang, rise, claim your kingdom.