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Auto-completion features in text editors create frustrating inconsistencies across different tools. The author argues for simpler default behavior that matches basic text inputs like HTML textareas, particularly criticizing automatic quote pairing and cursor movement. They propose a NO_AUTOINPUT environment variable to disable these "smart" features by default, allowing developers to maintain consistent muscle memory across all text input contexts.

Text Editors Should Be Worse

So… he wants to disable features that can pretty much be disabled on modern text editors. Got it.

LOL. I spend countless hours tweaking my Emacs config to get the best autocomplete I could get and this dude doesn’t even want to look for how to modify the editor he uses.

I don’t like autocomplete, therefore noone should have it!