"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

January 1, 1970

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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).