my roommates are forcing me to learn shell scripting 
@wallhackio Contrary to Cat Family, er, dogma, it is entirely possible to live a fulfilling life with Linux while understanding a very minimal amount of shell scripting. (I can read it, can't really write loops from scratch off the top of my head though.)
You probably do need *some* kind of scripting language. But Ruby or Python are fine.
@aschmitz @wallhackio the roommate in question was actually @Lady who does not use linux at all
@Satsuma @aschmitz @wallhackio @Lady she likes the POSIX parts of Mac, which makes her OS opinions tolerable 
@Lady @aescling @Satsuma @wallhackio *singsongy voice* ed(1), the standard editor
@aschmitz @aescling @Satsuma @wallhackio if it doesn’t support Unicode it is merely a code unit editor, not a text editor
@Lady @aescling @Satsuma @wallhackio Some day I will figure out how to get TextEdit to make a new plaintext document without defaulting to rich text until saved.
@aschmitz @aescling @Satsuma @wallhackio i recommend just switching to CotEditor but i do think there is a toggle for this somewhere in TextEdit preferences
@aescling @Satsuma @aschmitz @wallhackio i also like the having a native text editor parts of Mac