I can see what you mean, although the flicking between markup and formatted text as you moved the cursor would annoy the hell out of me I think. Now, would the

I can see what you mean, although the flicking between markup and formatted text as you moved the cursor would annoy the hell out of me I think. Now, would the cursor be a block over a character or a caret between characters? A lot of history riding on that one. Jef Raskin's Canon Cat springs to mind with its in-place commands (but not Vim's modefulness).