Of course it also means you lose the file if there's some sort of problem, but the benefits far outweight this small disadvantage. Most people are familiar with modal editors, one example being vi's beeping vs non-beeping mode. Now modal editors are usually regarded as a Bad Thing. FTL is probably the most versatile language in existence today, and is covered in a seperate document. This is useful if you've forgotten what the binding for the delete character command is set to this morning.
Many newer editors have online help.
The experienced user will usually know what they are doing, and the inexperienced user can always ask the nearest experienced user. Besides, Elves like threes, and since Elves have been around significantly longer than humans, they should know what's right and what isn't. Each gnxt command may be given a predefined repeat count by setting a built-in gnxt variable to the repeat value. From then on all gnxt commands will be repeated that many times. If a repeat-count greater than 64 bits is entered, gnxt will truncate it to this size.