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When people tell me stories about $EDITOR significantly improving their productivity, I wonder what kind of sweatshop coding they do where typing speed is a bottleneck...

I used to have a pretty nice emacs setup but this year I have been coding python in gedit (notepad.exe of Linux) and I've done just fine.

Agree. But I use geany as step up from gedit, just feels nicer to me.

It's probably the same people who spend a week configuring their desktop, only to have it covered up by other windows 99.9% of time. Some people simply like it.

gedit doesn't even indent a new line, does it?

editing speed != typing speed, that confusion might explain why you don't understand.

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