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There's a difference between editing text files and editing text. In the former, all you need is some mechanism to type, delete, and move text. In the latter, you want to work with the contents itself in a huge number of ways. There's no such things as an editor that works the way you like unless you only have very basic text editing needs. This is where people generally resort to Notepad or Word. In the other case you really want a good editor that fits both your fingers and thinking, and that's where you had better write the editor yourself. It is at this stage when many people have figured out that starting with Emacs is the easiest path.