Post #1305457
2026-02-11 12:03 UTC
To be fair, markdown is a very cool standard.
While I don't know if it really makes sense for Notepad to be anything other than a plain-text editor, there are better tools for that, supporting markdown is kind of nice.
This means you have support for it on fresh Windows installs, which could be good for virtual machines. That said, Markdown is intrinsically pretty readable without formatting anyway.
It's a shame they flubbed the implementation though...
Replies (3)
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@snooggums@piefed.world 2026-02-11 12:39
Windows used to come with notepad (raw text) and wordpad (basic markup). It would have made more sense to keep wordpad and add markdown to it instead so there would still be something that is just raw text.
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@whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-11 13:14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Here's the context if anyone didn't make the link, like me
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@BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-11 12:52
What even is the point of this comment?