Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:03:04 -0500 From: Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: teco added to ports - Fwd: FreshPorts daily new ports Message-ID: <200502242303.08462.marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <200502250357.j1P3vG8U000929@mist.nodomain> References: <200502250357.j1P3vG8U000929@mist.nodomain>
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--nextPart2726348.bi26SQJSb6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline TECO is worthless. I'm holding out for EDT. Marc. On Thursday 24 February 2005 10:57 pm, Dan Strick wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" =2D-=20 Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) http://www.bluecirclesoft.com http://www.mrami.com (personal) --nextPart2726348.bi26SQJSb6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCHqN8g1EgpGw750IRAvK+AKChNGWc2hCcNJ12diyzofIzIWHiyQCfVi3z R48fPofO+Ilyk7WAbFmisDc= =CJED -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2726348.bi26SQJSb6--
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