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  • I made a serious attempt at using ed(1) for a few weeks. Read the book by Michael Lucas and everything. In the end, I kind of do want to see the file I’m editing, etc. But, some features, or lack of features, stuck with me. Do I need a menu item to count words in the file? That’s why we have wc -w after all. This can be said about a lot of functionality built into editors. It made me really appreciate the idea of programs that do one thing, and can be combined. But yes, in the end it was too much for me, mostly because I’m not good enough with coreutils.






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    26 days ago

    I’m not sure it drove Navidson insane, but maybe it presented him a sane choice (staying safe with his wife) and an insane choice (risking everything to find out what is inside). And a certain type of person just can’t let it be, even at the cost of everything. Maybe this was inside him all the time, and then the house happened.