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Re:Good Tools Are Invisible by iLemming on Saturday July 11, 2026 @09:20PM (#48877425)
> never had to do this

is not a defensible argument (regardless of what you use), see the relevant comment here¹

the bigger point is to get more precise and utilitarian control over text which I already discussed here in this thread², piping in and out of your editor buffers sometimes comes very handy.

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¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876315

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48869558

Re:Good Tools Are Invisible by frollogaston on Sunday July 12, 2026 @12:03PM (#48882174)
Kinda is, maybe I found better ways to avoid or deal with those scenarios.