Note: I don’t care if the issues listed can be fixed - it’s still like selling a nonworking car then getting the users to go to the shady cyberpunk district to get the fixes. It’s like selling a dangerous power adapter and then go, hey, you can get an expert to go in there and do some soldering to the bridge rectifier and bulk cap trace widths, fix up the spark gaps so it complies with the most basic of safety regulations, and it will work as well as the competitor’s, so aren’t they practically the same? “Duurp, well at least you CAAAN get inside and solder-” Hey, what if a power supply just worked and was well featured? After like 40 years of development. Ever thought about that?
Apparently it’s infested with AI now - maybe PowerShell ISE is the closest thing to a reasonable text editor that comes with Windows nowadays, and that’s only because it’s a deprecated app they haven’t removed yet
Microsoft deprecated powershell ISE in favor of vscode. No new versions of ISE will be released going forward.
Vscode/vscodium is a whole lot better to work powershell in, but it sure ain’t a basic text editor. The days of first party basic text editing are gone on Windows.
I haven’t used Windows for years, so I can’t say what it is now, but it used to be great for note taking (as you might guess) and basic text editing. Basically anything that didn’t require any formatting. In fact, I used to use it to remove formatting from text during copy and paste back before “paste without formatting” was an option.
If you were making a joke and I was oblivious, I apologize.
I used to use it to remove formatting from text during copy and paste back before “paste without formatting” was an option.
Last year when I was forced to use Windows for work, I noted that “paste without formatting” didn’t always remove all formatting. So I still needed a text editor to do that.
no joke, I just don’t like notepad and how Microsoft’s handled its development. I feel like it’s by far the weakest built-in plaintext editor I’ve used across multiple OSes, and there’s so much easy stuff they could do to make it better, but instead they’ve shoved in a bunch of shit nobody asked for like AI of all things, so it’s not even particularly lightweight anymore
usually if I have to touch windows I find notepad++ on Huckter Joe’s Totally Not Trojans inc or emacs if I’m in hell again (long term development for a corporation that only does windows) but there’s a lot of reasons to want a better lightweight built-in option