There is no reason why "editing plain text" should be anything other than immediately intuitive. Advanced, time-saving features, like multi-cursors or regexp-based find-and-replace, can and should be progressively revealed through normal use of the software.
This ludditic reverence for user-hostile text editors is one of the more perplexing and frustrating things about our industry.
This ludditic reverence for user-hostile text editors is one of the more perplexing and frustrating things about our industry.