{"id":58119,"date":"2025-06-03T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=58119"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:03:57","slug":"bloco-de-notas-windows-markdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/bloco-de-notas-windows-markdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Markdown in Windows 11 Notepad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My instinctive reaction to the news that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2025\/05\/30\/text-formatting-in-notepad-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders\/\">Windows&nbsp;11 Notepad has gotten text formatting support<\/a> was to reject it outright. What a blasphemy! After reading the article, however, it seemed quite interesting: the formatting is Markdown, you can toggle between formatted and plain text with a click, and most importantly, you can completely disable formatting in the app&#8217;s settings.<\/p>\n<p>(This is yet another reason why it&#8217;s always good to read beyond the headline. Microsoft&#8217;s blog post announcing this feature, for example, doesn&#8217;t mention Markdown, which made me expect the worst.)<\/p>\n<p>TextEdit, macOS&#8217;s notepad equivalent, offers rich formatting (<code>*.rtf<\/code> format). It&#8217;s horrible. I think I only use it when I open the app for the first time after reinstalling the system or when setting up a new computer. My first move is always to switch the default to plain text in the settings.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I would love for macOS TextEdit to have native Markdown support, even if it were just syntax highlighting \u2014 that is, without rendering the formatting.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Windows Notepad, I learned that the version Microsoft has been updating with cool features (Markdown) and questionable ones (Copilot\/AI) over the past three years is actually a whole new app. And that the old app \u2014 the one that was abandoned by Microsoft for over two decades \u2014 remains accessible at <code>C:\\windows\\system32\\notepad.exe<\/code>. And if the new one is uninstalled, the old one automatically becomes the default. It&#8217;s good to have a backup when major changes hit previously reliable software.<\/p>\n<p>(At least that&#8217;s what <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/05\/in-3-5-years-notepad-exe-has-gone-from-barely-maintained-to-it-writes-for-you\/?comments=1&amp;post=43746095\">this commenter<\/a> on <cite>Ars Technica<\/cite> says. I don&#8217;t have a Windows PC to verify this information.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My instinctive reaction to the news that Windows&nbsp;11 Notepad has gotten text formatting support was to reject it outright. What a blasphemy! After reading the article, however, it seemed quite interesting: the formatting is Markdown, you can toggle between formatted and plain text with a click, and most importantly, you can completely disable formatting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":""},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1848,1957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58122,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58119\/revisions\/58122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}