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by cellularmitosis 1555 days 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

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It’s very weird how I can’t imagine editing text without seeing the state