| ▲ | brokencode 3 hours ago | |
Yeah IDK. Wordpad is built around rich text, with all the weirdness and complexity that comes with it. I know for a fact that .rtf is absurdly complicated to work with, and I assume that .docx is similar. I’m willing to bet that adding markdown to Notepad was a lot simpler than trying to make it work in Wordpad, especially since you’d probably still have to support rich text. | ||
| ▲ | alansaber 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Hence why I use .txt and not .rtf (After having multiple RTF files become corrupted) | ||
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| ▲ | westurner 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Syntax highlighting is definitely less complex than updating and rendering RTF and HTML. There is configurable syntax highlighting in vscode. Should an app like Notepad ever embed a WebView? (with e.g. tauri-apps/wry instead of CEF now FWIU)? Not even for a Markdown Preview feature IMHO. | ||