15 Nov
2017
15 Nov
'17
5:48 p.m.
Teco commands were described as being 'indistinguishable from line noise.'
On 10/30/120 cps dial up lines, that was not always a good thing ;-)
One of my favorite stories of teco years ago, one of my friends was editing
a teco macro and had gotten up from his terminal for a minute, his wife
looked at the screen and asked him if his 2 year old has been attacking the
keyboard again.
Clem
BTW: My friend and former co-worker, Paul Cantrell wrote an excellent
teco implemnentation for UNIX. I believe if you go to his web site (
copters.com) and poke around its available for download.
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
Ah, a later reply pointed out the minimalist thing.
never mind ;)
On 11/15/2017 11:13 AM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
I still don't get what was so bad about TECO.
*20t$$
<20 lines of text>
*fs<text to search for>$<text to replace it with>$$
*0lt$$ ; type current line to review what you've changed.
Very simple.
*<fstextsearch$textreplace$>$$
replace all occurrences of textsearch.
Now, of course, searching for something like a regular expression was much
harder.
Q-registers, all sorts of cool stuff.
But then, maybe I'm talking about a later version of TECO than you all. I
think I was on version 22 on TOPS-10 6.03A
On 11/14/2017 10:07 PM, Will Senn wrote:
I wasn't going to say it earlier, but now that you've said something about
it... I was thinking, thank god, ed isn't teco! :).
On 11/14/17 8:37 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
It took me a while to realize that ed(1) is what TECO should have been....
Too much TECO trauma scared me away for far too long.... But maybe it was
all the TECO macros I wrote to make the BH100 terminal useful as an editor
in full screen mode....
Warner
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
+1. Anyone who gets this is someone I'd
work with.
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:10:41PM -0600, Will Senn wrote:
Who'd
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On 11/14/17 7:25 PM, Nemo wrote:
>On 31/10/2017, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
>>A previous boss insisted that all his support staff learn ED, because
one
>day it
might be the only editor available on a trashed box (you can't
>mount /usr etc).
ed man; man ed
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html (Sorry -- could not resist)
N.
For all that it's the butt of jokes, ed is awesome. I didn't really
appreciate it until vi wasn't an easy goto option anymore (v6). After
reading Kernighan's tutorial, I kind of fell in love with it. g/re/p? of thunk it? ed may not be 'visual',
but the entire document is
editable and
its support of regex and the global command are
incredibly powerful.
Especially, for so incredibly tiny an editor. Finally, ed is the
sibling of
sed and once I got the connection there, it
opened up a whole new world
of
editing awesomeness.
Will
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