> Text editing is a solved problem Text manipulation isn't just about creating content - it's also about how you consume and interact with it. Just because tex

> Text editing is a solved problem Text manipulation isn't just about creating content - it's also about how you consume and interact with it. Just because text appears in a different app, with a different format, or different fonts and colors doesn't mean your editor shouldn't be easily grab it. While typing text in my editor, I can: - Read the list of urls on a webpage in my browser - Check if any links lead to HN discussions - Search for text on a page, switch tabs, or list urls of open tabs - Search across all open tabs for a pattern - Control YT vids - rewind, change speed, pause, mute, transcript, etc. - handy when watching and taking notes. I can capture any area of my screen and have the text OCR'd directly into a buffer. Even grabbing a code snippet from a Slack thread only takes a single keystroke. None of these apps have "compatibility layer" or RPCs or designed to talk-to-one-another. The only shared property they have is text. Vendors are designed to keep your text a hostage, that's why whatever text-editing system you choose, it should have means for reaching out and extracting text from anything you want. And that is not a "solved problem", not for everyone.