Text Formatting in Notepad begin rolling out to Windows Insiders

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/30/text-formatting-in-notepad-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/

6•thunderbong•8mo ago

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trinix912•8mo ago

Am I the only one who thinks these features would be a better fit for WordPad instead of Notepad? They could've made a WordPad from scratch with Markdown, RTF, DOC(X), and ODT at this point and it would've been more complete than shipping a half-baked Markdown implementation in Notepad. Plus, it wouldn't break the decades old assumptions by users that Notepad is for plain unformatted text and WordPad is for formatted/rich/"enhanced" text.

bonki•8mo ago

My thoughts exactly. I think this has mostly to do with marketing because pretty much nobody uses Wordpad and most people hate it, while everybody uses Notepad or a replacement (Notepad++ or similar) which usually already has a lot more features, including markdown support. So from their perspective I can understand this decision, even though I don't think that this is where Notepad should be heading. On Windows, I use NP++ and other tools if I need more features, but I specifically use Notepad for when I don't want fancy stuff and slow startup times, often for the sole reason of getting rid of formatting of copy'n'pasted text. Notepad is stupid, but that can be a good thing. If I want something else I use something else.

ddingus•8mo ago

Nobody needs formatting in notepad.

Guess I will now always fetch a text editor. Having the simple character only notepad is great. It is general purpose stripping tool. Paste there, pick up just text, move on.

Doing that, and editing text files are the two things I use the program for.

Adding formatting breaks the paste to strip function, leaving only editing text files, and now I don't know what the program will insert.

Who decides this stuff?

In 11 we are already getting a ton of low value, many believe high cost and risk features we do not want. Continuing to piss in the OS is not helpful.

It took quite a bit of tinkering to get rid of both the nag ad and Copilot installer appearing every morning.

I won't need to do that with notepad thankfully.

But it would not surprise me a bit to learn Notepad includes a key logger to improve things by learning more about how we edit text files...

Clowns. Seriously.

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