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> The main goal of this editor is to keep the focus on the text editing and not be distracted too much by buttons, tabs, menus, and animations… I used Emacs a lot.

I am sure emacs can be easily configured not to have too many animations. Even on Windows.



The full quote was not related to visual distraction (3 lines of config remove it all in Emacs) but rather:

> I used Emacs a lot so my Ctrl key is remapped to CapsLock. I think such Control key position is way better and ergonomic, so consider do the same.


> 3 lines of config remove it all in Emacs

Exactly. (Knowing emacs does not keep me, either, from wanting to write a text editor of my own, no matter what "the main goal" of that might be.)


Well. Most terminal based editor works like that.




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