[ux266478]

I don't like keyboard-centric text editing. Yes GNU Emacs supports the mouse, but just like Vim the experience is miserable. You can spend a lot of time configuring it, but at some point you're just writing extensions of extensions just to get a basic GUI flow that isn't painful, and no matter what it'll never feel quite "right". The program just wasn't built with the idea of a mouse in mind, and bolting it on really wasn't sufficient.

Add onto that pretty nasty performance issues, internals that aren't exactly well thought-out, and the experience in general having a high background noise of jank, where it's not uncommon for simple things like rainbow parens to randomly break.

I understand why other people like it, but it's really just not for me. I'll stick with Lite-XL.

[jjav]

> I don't like keyboard-centric text editing.

Interesting? Unless you're using voice dictation, isn't text editing 100% keyboard based input?

[ux266478]

No. Even most keyboard-centric text editors implement mouse inputs, with only a few exceptions coming to mind, almost none of which anybody uses today, for example ed. In fact, most editors don't even restrict text insertion and deletion to keyboard input, which is what you might be confusing with "text editing", which might be more clearly expanded to "operating a text editor".