I think Dave (of Dave's Garage) did this just a few months ago... I think there ... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		tracker1 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown I think Dave (of Dave's Garage) did this just a few months ago... I think there were some short-comings regarding wide character support (BoM detection, etc)... but it was pretty much a working Notepad.exe implementation. FWIW, you can also get the new Edit implementation that's built with Rust and the Windows exe is 250kb...

		help

fuzzylightbulb 20 hours ago [–]

Thought of this immediately after reading the parent comment. I was actually pretty shocked at how seamless the whole project was.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact