Comment by UqWBcuFx6NV4r
1 day ago
I don’t know what sort of insane nerd echo chamber you have to be in to think that MBA-ification means “adding rich text editing features to a text editor”.
You’ve heard legitimate complaints about “MBAs” but very clearly lack the knowledge to identify those problems on your own.
> "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.
I like having something all in one.
Funny comment because this would have been WordPad.
I liked having a simple plain text editor
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Wordpad 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?
The 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.
RTF is not binary encoded though? It's plain text with commands, not unlike TeX.
>Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files.
then put the markdown support there to supplant rtfs?