Comment by AnimalMuppet

> Plenty of writers and programmers also spend a lot of time cutting down and editing what they just wrote - to get sharper prose or more concise and understandable code. Which is NOT something that can be done with a goose quill.

Disagree. At least for prose, I do my best editing that way. (All right, not a goose quill - I use a ballpoint.)

I find it easier to draw a line through some text than to move the cursor to the start, hold down shift while moving to the end, then hitting backspace or delete. I find it easier to move some text from one place to another by drawing an arrow than by selecting the start, shift selecting the end, ctrl-x, move to the destination, then ctrl-c. And so on.

In short, pen and paper break my mental flow less, so I can put more uninterrupted brain onto the actual editing.

Now, sure, after I'm done with the editing, then I have to go to the actual file, find the start of that text to delete, hold down shift while I move to the end, and all that. But I'm not making the edit decisions while I do that.

This is just what works best for me. If it doesn't for you, that's fine. Don't use it.