> "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

I can't believe I'm saying this on hackernews of all places... Markdown *is* plain text.

That's the point. It now gets rendered in Notepad. Before these changes Notepad was just able to edit plain text and not rendered markdown etc.

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.

>Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files.

then put the markdown support there to supplant rtfs?

RTF is not binary encoded though? It's plain text with commands, not unlike TeX.