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Don't Mode Me In.

You're welcome to cripple yourself (and you'd be in illustrious company -- just about every famous name in Emacs's history has suffered severe RSI); I was just trying to answer your original question.

I don't think fame has anything to do with it, but for what it's worth, I've been using emacs for over 25 years and have never suffered from any form os RSI.

I don't feel crippled, by the way. But since I like keeping an open mind, if you have any actual arguments, please feel free to share.

In the mean time, if you're also open, I recommend checking out some counter arguments, for instance in the work of Larry Tessler.

It was definitely a surprise to me when I learned some time ago that "modelessness" was considered an innovation when it was developed, since editors before that (I assume) were all modal!

But I don't think modal/modeless is either/or. It can be (and I personally use) both.

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