16 Nov
2017
16 Nov
'17
12:13 a.m.
Tom Almy's version, based on Pete Siemsen's TECO implementation
is available as a FreeBSD port. Also runs on a bunch of other
platforms. A more recent version with Blake McBride's changes
is at https://github.com/blakemcbride/TECOC. I had used TECO a
long time ago on TOPS-10 so I played with this version but it
feels completely foreign to me now:-)
On Nov 15, 2017, at 8:48 AM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
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:
> 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?
Who'd
> 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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