It’s editing lines that have semis. Any “to end of line” operation (and there are tons) you have to think about whether you want the semi or not, which often depends on what the future context will be. This is one of those things where once you get used to “power-editing” in semi-free, it’s very difficult to go back. And note that the bulk of my work is semi-d, I only go semi-free on greenfield projects. So it’s not a case of having more experience one way or the other.

Any lisper/schemester will tell you that reducing syntax makes power editing simple, but for some reason JS people love their semi’s. Beats me.