You'll be glad you know ed on that day when you're stuck with nothing but a thin-client teletype terminal on Mars and having to edit a file stored on Earth 24 light-minutes away.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
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Something like that happened in the book "The Martian" by Andy Weir. I loved that part!
The ultimate WYGIWYG editor!
Wow, you even caught the pike with that one, over on Mastodon.
By Theo... I hope his wife never sees how I perverted Glenda in my work.
I can't imagine the author of Grit Bath would be offended by your perversion.
Ed is for a more elegant time, when every printed character cost you money!
There is a price. Each character entails a bit more entropy in the universe. The price is small, but the currency with which it is paid one in limited supply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
Entropy is central to the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated system left to spontaneous evolution cannot decrease with time. As a result, isolated systems evolve toward thermodynamic equilibrium, where the entropy is highest. A consequence of the second law of thermodynamics is that certain processes are irreversible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe
The heat death of the universe, also known as the Big Freeze (or Big Chill), is a scenario under which continued expansion results in a universe that asymptotically approaches absolute zero temperature.[18] Under this scenario, the universe eventually reaches a state of maximum entropy in which everything is evenly distributed and there are no energy gradients—which are needed to sustain information processing, one form of which is life. This scenario has gained ground as the most likely fate.[19]
In this scenario, stars are expected to form normally for 10^12 to 10^14 (1–100 trillion) years, but eventually the supply of gas needed for star formation will be exhausted. As existing stars run out of fuel and cease to shine, the universe will slowly and inexorably grow darker. Eventually black holes will dominate the universe, which themselves will disappear over time as they emit Hawking radiation.
Remember the cost, when your fancy modeline with Unicode in color sits at the bottom of your virtual terminal.
ominous thunder rumble
This is why I sleep in a giant pentagram, only let's the emacs demons in
https://emacsdocs.org/docs/emacs/Emacs-Server
If you want to run multiple Emacs daemons (see Initial Options), you can give each daemon its own server name like this:
emacs --daemon=foo
for d in beelzebub chemosh dagon moloch; do
emacs --daemon=$d
done