Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Get Firefox dotcom.

Download, install, & run.

Menu -> Add-ons and themes -> Extensions -> Find more add-ons: "ublock origin" -> uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill -> Add to Firefox

Why?

Because now that Chrome has dethroned Internet Explorer, one dark lord has been replaced by another:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-warns-ublock-origin-may-soon-be-disabled/

Is Firefox the best Web browser? No, far from it! But it's the *least* bad choice of browser that works with the modern excuses for websites you use.

Muscle memory. Every time you reach for your drink, type period, enter, "w", enter, "a", enter.

... You *are* remembering to hydrate, right?

There are only two modes: command & entry. If you're ever less than totally sure about which mode you're in. just type a period (".") on a line by itself.

If you were in entry mode, nothing will happen, and you're now in command mode.

If you were in command mode, the current line is printed, and you're still in command mode.

Either way, you're now in command mode & your next command will act on the line you think it will.

Understanding that the atom of data in ed is not the character of text, as it is with WYSIWYG text editors & word processors. The atom of data in ed is the *line* of text. Every ed command does things with or to a line. Even "s".

This was also the case in the ed-inspired microcomputer editors MS-DOS Edlin & (mostly) CP/M Ed.

A cover of "Your Own Personal Jesus" but gender-flipped.

"Your Own Personal Goddess"

One of the Vim features I miss is nested bracketing highlighting. When your cursor is on a "),],}", it highlights the corresponding "(,[,{", & vice versa. But in recent versions or in some syntaxes (IDK which), it's losing track at less than 5 deep, highlighting obviously mismatched pairs. Sometimes, it mismatches 1 of a pair but correctly matches the other of the same pair. In this broken state, the feature is worse than useless.

Because ed(1) doesn't have this feature, it can't do it wrong.

@cr1901 Indeed, m4 is very fun to write, whatever the purpose, but only once the macro definitions are sorted out and debugged.

Current self-inflicted pain:

No, not using ed(1). Believe it or not, switching from Vim was a surprisingly remarkable improvement, especially over SSH, & especially since I already know sed, vi, & re_format(7) reasonably well.

It's doing actual, honest to goodness, Turing-complete programming in pure m4, the ancient text macro processor your modern Linux likely has by default, to do the sort of text transformations I'd ordinarily write a shellscript to do.

IDK why I do this to myself.