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 Pry is fairly flexible and allows significant user
-[customization](https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/Customization-and-configuration)
-is trivial to set it to read from any object that has a `readline` method and
-write to any object that has a `puts` method - many other aspects of Pry are
-also configurable making it a good choice for implementing custom shells.
+[customization](https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/Customization-and-configuration).
+It is trivial to read from any object that has a `readline` method and
+write to any object that has a `puts` method. Many other aspects of Pry are
+also configurable, making it a good choice for implementing custom shells.
 
 Pry comes with an executable so it can be invoked at the command line. Just
 enter `pry` to start. A `pryrc` file in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pry/` or the user's