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What? Hacker News? The "sound a keyboard makes your you're programming furiously in a text editor"-er News? I think you're a little confused about who reads this site.

I think most of us care immensely about our text editors, and specifically how they can be as efficient as possible so we can spend as little time in them as possible and get back to reading Hacker News.

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Maybe I am confused who reads that site. Apparently it's teeming with larval stage hackers who haven't yet figured out how they want to write text to files.

I would say HN has expanded in the type of readers. I enjoy a good discussion about text editors, and have enjoyed the ones about _TEXT_EDITOR_, but I do not recall any of those text editors posts resulting in a text editor flame war. If _TEXT_EDITOR_ is not your thing, nor is picking which text editor is the best, just skip the articles. I see only 1 text editor post on the front page right now. I only recall seeing 5 articles on text editors the last few days.

tl;dr I like _TEXT_EDITOR_ but skip the articles if you don't care about how you flip your bits.

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