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Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad
Armand1@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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. Means you have support for it on fresh installs, which could be good for virtual machines.
It’s a shame they flubbed the implementation though…
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
What even is the point of this comment?
Armand1@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The point is that I’ve seen several comments on other posts about this vulnerability, and in the body of this one, saying that Notepad is bloated and terrible now.
I’m offering a counterpoint that this is not necessarily bloat. It’s debatable that this is the right tool to have this feature, but it can be a useful feature.
I’m fine with Markdown support, but I wish MS got the message about Copilot being unwanted. Not sure if they’ve added it to Notepad or not at this stage, but given all the places they’ve crammed it into I wouldn’t be surprised.
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 22 hours ago
…a counterpoint that this is not necessarily bloat. It’s debatable that this is the right tool to have this feature…
That’s called bloat.
snooggums@piefed.world 22 hours ago
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.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
I thought the Notepad > Wordpad > MS Word progression was pretty much perfect. A zero complication plaintext editor, something with a bit more formatting, and outright typesetting for print.
Granted I use a combination of Notepad++, Obsidian, and haphazard LaTeX venvs now so who am I to talk. I don’t represent most Windows users and especially not the Linux daily drivers. I’d like to think there’s still a lot of people in my situation.
It says a lot that none of the reasons I like Notepad++ were brought into Notepad when they changed it. A copilot button in the place where I write immediate notes and edit batch files? What could possibly be the use case? I just need it to be able to open massive text files and have a decent search UI and that’s it
davidagain@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
WordPad writes fairly clean rtf. Word writes incredibly bloated messy rtf. No, I don’t want to use a .docx or .pdf generating library, I just wanna slap some strings together and have it come out ready to print yet editable by non techy users. I use wordpad to write my templates.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
I’m a huge proponent of LaTeX also, but I feel like it’s not that widely used outside of specific professional niches. The biggest issue I have with Word (and similar software) is the content generation and typesetting being forced into the same interface. It just breaks everything all the time. I’d much happier using word if it only allowed you to type in an Edit mode, and only allowed you to change fonts and layout and stuff in a View mode, and the View mode changes weren’t reflected live in the Edit mode.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
I’ve had to use Office a lot professionally and I have to say you do get to learn its quirks over time if you’re stubborn enough to figure out what triggers each unexpected behavior. Ironically learning LaTeX really helped me figure out what’s happening internally in Word in some of those situations, just understanding how the breaks and spaces might be stored gives you a little extra insight.
AFAIK you can do something similar to what you’re describing in outline mode but I could be completely misremembering.
All the Office suite is bloated but LibreOffice still feels a long way off.