I'm unsure what benefit you are trying to describe here. When I jot things down in Notepad++, I use tons of commands all of the time to edit the text. You don't just type from start to finish, you know; you move around and you make edits. People who are more mouse-driven than me use buttons for the same purpose. I also make extensive use of (“special”) Unicode characters to make things clear to myself. Why would I use a software whose explicit aim is to take this all away?