That’s Notepad in the screenshot? I haven’t used Windows in years, but I remember Notepad being the one that didn’t do rich text. Did they just fold Wordpad into Notepad and add Copilot?
So now notepad is the worst of both worlds. It doesn’t do rich text formatting but it does support some random markdown features. But only some, not all. So it’s useless as a markdown editor.
Oh and it has tabs now and saves on exit, which fortunately you can turn off.
That’s Notepad in the screenshot? I haven’t used Windows in years, but I remember Notepad being the one that didn’t do rich text. Did they just fold Wordpad into Notepad and add Copilot?
Basically yes
What they did to notepad was the final straw for me.
So now notepad is the worst of both worlds. It doesn’t do rich text formatting but it does support some random markdown features. But only some, not all. So it’s useless as a markdown editor.
Oh and it has tabs now and saves on exit, which fortunately you can turn off.
Yep.
They paywalled basic-ass Wordpad a few years ago. Yet another reason why I started using LibreOffice.
It doesn’t do rtf. You can change the typeface but it applies to the whole document.
Wordpad is still available free, it’s just not a default install.