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"Ed is the standard text editor." and maybe we didn't "need" anything else, but comfort and ease of use are good incentives to create better tools, and tools mo
by hyakosm 5y ago
"Ed is the standard text editor." and maybe we didn't "need" anything else, but comfort and ease of use are good incentives to create better tools, and tools more adequate with our work environment.
- cellularmitosis 5y ago"I've seen [visual] editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing." - Ken Thompson on the superiority of ed to editors such as today's vi or emacs, as summarized by Peter Salus in A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison-Wesley, 1994) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
- edgyquant 5y agoIt’s very weird how I can’t imagine editing text without seeing the state