Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:57:16 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: teco added to ports - Fwd: FreshPorts daily new ports Message-ID: <200502250357.j1P3vG8U000929@mist.nodomain>
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On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 19:18 -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > Wow ... teco is finally in FreeBSD ports. Now I have the option of > easily installing an editor that causes ulcers and premature aging even > faster than ed does! > Are we talking about that ancient DEC text editor that kept a current character position instead of a current line number, used lots of altmode characters in its command language and provided for huge incomprehensible command macros that could implement reasonably general programs with conditionals and loops? Good old ed is far easier to use than TECO. I always had great difficulty keeping track of the current character position when using TECO interactively. I once blew most of my monthly cpu allocation doing a simple file-wide string substitution with TECO. I should have just reloaded the source file from punched cards. I recall a WYSIWYG text editor on RSTS that might have been implemented as a TECO macro. I think it was called something like "VT52". TECO on FreeBSD? This is too bizarre. Dan Strick
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