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Well, at least they brought back edit[0] [0] https://github.com/microsoft/edit https://github.com/microsoft/edit

• tracker1 7mo ago
  If this was actually (pre)installed with Windows, I wouldn't mind the changes to notepad nearly as much.
  • Someone1234 7mo ago
    While I'd love it installed by default, I still very much mind that they're ruining Notepad. Plus this Markdown preview functionality just caused Notepad to have a Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in it.
    • tracker1 7mo ago
      Oh it's still pretty stupid, and I think they should have simply resurrected the Wordpad name for this, and maybe a conversion utility for opening doc/rtf files to markdown in the editor for older file support.
      • Someone1234 7mo ago
        Agreed. Resurrecting Wordpad and making it really cool/useful would make everyone happy. They can add as much AI and Markdown as they want to Wordpad as far as I'm concerned. Just leave my dumb featureless utility alone.
  • noinsight 7mo ago
    It is preinstalled. Server 2025 (even Core Edition) and Windows 11 24H2 (or 25H2, not sure)...
• jsrcout 7mo ago
  Edit is unironically one of my favorite text editors these days. It opens incredibly fast compared to everything else I use, it's easy to use, works fine on Linux. It's not going to replace emacs or VS Code, but it's incredibly handy for basic editing chores.
  • prima-facie 7mo ago
    Have you tried Micro? https://micro-editor.github.io/ https://micro-editor.github.io/
  • coffeebeqn 7mo ago
    If you don’t need to render rich text and want a plain text editor then TUIs are the least likely to get a bunch of dumb features
• ptx 7mo ago
  But the rest of QBASIC is missing.