I retained a brief amount of info on the other effects because people might try to address those, thinking they could also be a problem. But, yeah, the real improvement on this one comes from focusing the question on the problem rather than tidying up superfluous stuff. The general recommendation is to change the authors words as little as needed to make the post clear. You have to weigh perfect English vs. the author's ownership in the post. Not every imperfection needs to be fixed if it doesn't really hurt the post. It's a judgment call; different reviewers could react differently.

I took another look at the question. It contained a lot of wording about stuff that wasn't critical to the actual question. That was largely what was distracting to wade through. I edited it to minimize the unnecessary part and focus on the actual question. Ordinarily, it isn't recommended to make such massive edits. Reviewers might even push back if this had been proposed by a <2K editor. In this case, I think more people will read it and immediately grasp the actual question.

The title needs a capitalization, and maybe the big paragraph would benefit from being split. "Shortcut find and replace" isn't clear (is that the name of a utility? an action?), but it doesn't affect the meaning of the question. The question isn't suffering from lack of an edit. But readers do need to work a little to understand the question because it's entirely an abstract description. The long paragraph and unclear phrase make it more work to read, but fixing those doesn't solve the underlying problem. (cont'd)

Changing the comma to a period is a matter of opinion as to whether that's an improvement. I would have left the last paragraph separate because it's a different subject, so that reparagraphing wasn't an improvement. That leaves just splitting the 1st paragraph. Yeah, that probably makes that paragraph a little more readable, but it's a trivial change if that's the only improvement. The net of all the changes: meh, not sure it was really a net improvement. I probably would have rejected it also. If it had fixed anything substantive, I might have improved the edit.

Once you have the rep to edit without review, you are free to fix even the most trivial things that you consider an improvement, although even then, you should weigh the value of the improvement against bumping the post to the main page. Below, 2K rep, edits create a review task for 2 to 3 other users. Reviewers look for edits that substantively improve a post. Style changes are often matters of opinion as to whether they're necessary or an actual improvement. Quoting "shortcut find and replace" didn't make that any clearer. (cont'd)

@Albin, if they had posted any other question or answer (which their profile indicates they haven't), you could leave a comment to them on that post.

It's a very fundamental question, but it's clear. Beginner questions are on-topic. grawity wrote a good answer and deleted it. I agree with you, and voted to reopen.

Note: all of this has been completed. New [synaptics-touchpad] and [synaptic-pkg-mgr] tags to avoid ambiguity, tag wiki excerpts, [synaptics] tag cleaned out and reflected on the Manufacturer tags Meta post.

[synaptic-pkg-mgr] would be less likely to be misused in the future. I'll look at going with that.

My education continues. :-)

You deleted one answer for plagiarism. It lifted the whole article verbatim, but did attribute the source in two places. Before noticing the deletion reason, I edited the post to remove snippets of wording that could be seen as objectionable. I could be missing something, but given that the question has been edited and reopened, the answer, to my reading, doesn't seem to violate any rules. Please take another look after some coffee and see if you would consider undeleting it (or is reposting of an entire article verbatim considered plagiarism even with attribution?).