Oops! Nix <·············@esperi.demon.co.uk> was seen spray-painting on a wall:
> On 06 May 2002, Lee Sau Dan yowled:
>>>>>>> "Mickey" == Mickey Lane <··········@earthlink.net> writes:
>> Mickey> (I used to use TECO and I do *not* miss those days...)
>>
>> Teco? Is that something like Pico?
>
> Oh no. It's about as far from Pico as can be; the original platform on
> which Emacs ran, and closest spritually to a sort of turbocharged ex(1)
> without the user-friendliness and with a truly, er, unique and
> rebarbative command language.
>
> See <http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/TECO.html>.
>
>> Are you kidding? People who do
>> _serious_ development in Unix use either vi or Emacs.
>
> TECO long predates either of these. Mickey is talking about the 70s (at
> least, I hope he didn't have to use TECO after that!)
> evidence for the gib gnab hypothesis
Paul Cantrell's "Video TECO" isn't so bad; I've got patches to get it
to work with modern versions of Linux.
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TECO Madness: a moment of regret, a lifetime of convenience.
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