Comment by kristjansson

You may want to take a look at `man ed`, `info ed`, or [0]. ed is many things, but verbose is not one of them.

In particular, it's designed for the teletype era, when (a) the user would have a trace of all the commands they'd sent and output they'd received, since it was literally printed on paper, and (b) output was literally printed on paper, and so had a direct, non-negligible cost.

This is more or less exactly the situation LLMs find themselves in. they can attend to ~all the prior output in their context window, but there's a direct cost to adding new symbols to context.

We've got a tool for exactly that setting, so it would be fun to try it!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)