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.


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).

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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.

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.

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.

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.