Virtues and debilities of plain text

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Nov 7, 2007 at 02:28 AM

“Smart” paste and drag, etc. as found in word processing applications like Word and WordPerfect, are convenient for writing but maybe not for programming. Do plain text editors forego this feature, as noxious to programmers? Then why not make it an option? Is there a smart pasting, smart dragging, text editor on the market, or is there a good reason why there shouldn’t be? Or am I exaggerating this feature’s significance?