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But almost every editor worth its salt these days has structural editing.

https://docs.helix-editor.com/syntax-aware-motions.html

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/combobulate-structure...

https://zed.dev/blog/syntax-aware-editing

Etc etc.

And that's a great thing! I look forward to them being more mature and more widely adopted, as I have tried both zed and helix, and for the day to day work they are not yet there. For stuff to take traction though. Both of them, however, don't intend to be projectional editors as far as I am aware. For vims or emacs out there - I don't think they mainstream tools which can tip the scale. Even now vim is considered a niche, quirky editor with very high barrier of entry. And still, they operate primarily on text.

Without tools in mainstream editors I don't see how it can push us forward instead of saying a niche barely anyone knows about.

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