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Why is this easier than opening a text editor?

It is not about opening a text editor. It's about what you would type into that editor. The value provided is in the templates, not in the editor.

If someone is writing readmes all the time, why wouldn't that person have a pandadoc or similar template for this task?

You're exactly right - if you're writing readme's all the time, you'd have templates ready to go.

I only write readme's maybe once every few months or perhaps once a year, and having a template (interactive like this one, or otherwise) that someone else has thought about is super useful to me.

Lol not sure if this is a joke or not. Who writes readmes all the time? And where does the project state that it targets these people ?

I think that meant to be a joke.

I actually do create a few README files every month (cos of Microservices), but I still don't understand why someone would use a tool to generate README files.

I wrote a README.md template because I started a bunch of projects of my own in the last month but I haven't used it so far and it is not more than a bunch of headers plus a license boilerplate.

Actually, I'd love an emacs extension for that use case. There probably are 12 already, a few within org mode ...

It's not. Especially not, if you have a "New Readme File" template, that even does template expansions.

But to have something like this open along with that template would be really cool (and probably a resource hog to the editor/IDE, heh!)

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