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 # Deft
 
-A suite of Kate plugins for people who despise menus. The aim is a text editor
-that is driven by the mouse at the cursor and by plain-letter keyboard input —
-never by hunting through nested menubars or memorizing complex chords.
+Deft is my attempt to turn Kate into a daily driver I actually want to use. I
+live in Plan 9's [acme](http://acme.cat-v.org/) most of the time, but I like a
+lot of what Kate offers — and I don't like menu-driven workflows. So this is a
+suite of Kate / KTextEditor plugins that pulls in ideas from the tools I reach
+for — acme, sam, and the plumber from Plan 9; `M-x` from Emacs; a Sublime-style
+fuzzy palette — and bends Kate toward them.
+
+The aim is a text editor driven by the mouse at the cursor and by plain-letter
+keyboard input — never by hunting through nested menubars or memorizing complex
+chords.
 
 ## Design constraints