Largely agreed with you regarding the mental model. This is similar to a push I give a lot of programmers on why autocomplete and such is not necessarily a mus

Largely agreed with you regarding the mental model. This is similar to a push I give a lot of programmers on why autocomplete and such is not necessarily a must have feature. Definitely nice, but doesn't help with my mental model of what I'm doing at all. Only disagreement is that emacs, oddly, is almost certainly more flexible with regards to what a word is than many other editors. With things like global-subword-mode making it so that I can transpose words in a camel case name.