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> "adding rich text editing features to a text editor” Yeah, we already had that. In the form of Wordpad. Which was EOL'd. And now we have Notepad with AI feat
by datenyan 7mo ago
> "adding rich text editing features to a text editor”
Yeah, we already had that. In the form of Wordpad. Which was EOL'd. And now we have Notepad with AI features.
Notepad was, and always should have been, a simple & lightweight text box for storing and editing text only files. If you wanted to edit something more complicated, you could use the other tool that was built into Windows specifically for that.
- eclipxe 7mo agoI like having something all in one.
- 2muchcoffeeman 7mo agoFunny comment because this would have been WordPad.
- ThrowawayTestr 7mo agoI liked having a simple plain text editor
- procone 7mo agoWordpad was horrible! Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files. They were a nightmare for any other platform other than windows. What are these horrible takes?
- 4k0hz 7mo agoThe point is that there was basically no reason to totally kill Wordpad in the way that they did. They're different products and the new Notepad is closer to the ideal version of Wordpad than what Notepad is supposed to be, and now there's no Notepad.
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- sznio 7mo ago>Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files. then put the markdown support there to supplant rtfs?
- throw-the-towel 7mo agoRTF is not binary encoded though? It's plain text with commands, not unlike TeX.