They’re actually acknowledging this in their latest blogpost
Notepad’s sole purpose is to remove formatting from copied text.
it’s where most people started learning html
ctrl+shift+v is your friend
Doesn’t work everywhere…
Unsurprisingly Microsoft products are the least consistent with it
Isn’t notepad an LLM client now?
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…
@REDACTED@infosec.pub @RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip
@programmer_humor@programming.devI’d say LLM is a notepad client now.
Waiting for the rename to copad AI.
CopePad
They also introduced a critical security vulnerability into notepad where they just had the markdown links shell execute
open linkwhich allowed just installing arbitrary software as long as the link was valid instead of just opening a browser.If you managed to get the file onto a person’s you could execute it by having the person click on the link.
If for some reason you’re stuck on windows, might I recommend notepad++ ?
But also beware as notepad++ has had a security breach recently.
So has everything.
A text editor shouldn’t be having security breaches.
Neither should Windows itself. But here we are. And have been for some time.
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 FORIts 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!Notepad++ gang, rise, claim your kingdom.
The Notepad getting junk added is a Microsoft Store app. The old notepad.exe is still usable.
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
Probably as usual: Legacy reasons.
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”
Not all of them anymore. Some control panel icons just throw you into the new settings app.
Whomever was involved with the creation of the “new” printer settings menu should be killed by dumping a whole nest of fire ants high on bath salts into their rectum and then stapling it shut.
