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title: Why Text Editing Matters
date: Wed 09 Jul 2025
draft: true
description: A manifesto on why we should care about our text editing experience.
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This post will gather my thoughts in general about why text editing, and caring
about your text editor experience, really matters, especially for programmers
and writers.

- Keep this less focused on any particular editor, and more about the general
  principles of why modal editing is cool and the ideological/personal reasons I
  have for caring so much about my editor. Can reference vim & kakoune but the
  kakoune deep-dive will get its own post.