There's something to say for minimalism as a distraction-free mechanism. I've wasted a lot of time during my life reconfiguring Emacs or Vim, switching back and forth between various GUI note-taking apps, or tweaking my LaTeX preambles. The brutal minimalism of something like NotePad leaves you with less distractions.
I think it's the same reason I sometimes decide to leave the computer entirely and grab some pen and paper to really get things done.
When you can't even undo properly (while you're used to this in other apps), does this annoyance not distract you from whatever you're doing in the text editor?
> There's something to say for minimalism as a distraction-free mechanism.
I think there's little credit to be given here. A text widget is part of any gui toolkit and there are hundreds of notepad like text editors. I think basically every DE on Linux has their own...
I think it's the same reason I sometimes decide to leave the computer entirely and grab some pen and paper to really get things done.