What are your favorite packages for improving vanilla emacs text editing?

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  • interactive-align

    Interactively align by regular expression in emacs

    • Found https://github.com/mkcms/interactive-align fairly recently. Also the built in rectangle commands are really useful.

  • symex.el

    An intuitive way to edit Lisp symbolic expressions ("symexes") structurally in Emacs

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  • auto-activating-snippets

    Snippets for Emacs that expand as you type

    • aas with tempo (built-in). I use these to replace yasnippet and cdlatex for inserting templets and latex. Pretty neat.

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