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How about a text editor that just obey your will? That would obviously be the ideal thing to do. The problem is, it's not yet possible.

But we still can try to approach it. You can train to type so fast that your fingers move at thought speed. You can use a keyboard layout and a text editor that helps you do that.

If you type and edit lots of text, the worth of advanced editors is obvious: the various short-cuts they let you use makes you faster. Because of that, whatever you do with it is easier. Because of that, you do more.

Learning to properly use a good editor is a bit like learning to touch-type. Slow at first, but the rewards (better comfort and greater speed) makes you wonder why you didn't do that earlier.



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