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Minor clarification on scrap

Getty Ritter 9 years ago
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   The big alternative I know of is
-  [termkit](https://github.com/unconed/TermKit), which is an interesting
+  [TermKit](https://github.com/unconed/TermKit), which is an interesting
   experiment: but, to me, it's filled with far too many special cases
   and not enough nice primitives. For example, there's a special
   way of outputting a list of files (e.g. output from `ls`) but this
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   Thule builds on top of this by having a standard set of building
   blocks, so that you no longer have the special-case "list of files",
-  but rather primitive building blocks like `list`s and `file`s.
+  but rather primitive building blocks like `list` and `file`.
   Consider the output from `wc`: this also contains file references,
   but it additionally contains a table mapping those to values. In
   a TermKit-like setting, you'd have to come up with a new schema
   (say, `application/json; schema=termkit.wordcount`) that understands
-  which parts of the output are files and which aren't.
+  which parts of the output are files and which aren't. This is
+  particularly tricky for `wc`, because you want to have the
+  final `total` row, which does _not_ contain a file. And what if
+  other tools also print table-like structures? Can those be
+  processed with the same tools?
 
   Thule aims to pull those low-level building blocks out, so the
   output from `ls` might give you a collection like