Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Teco Emacs (was Re: PD or Shareware Copyrights) Message-ID: <417@xdos.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 89 03:36:26 GMT References: <18195@louie.udel.EDU> <18280@louie.udel.EDU> <18366@louie.udel.EDU> <14731@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <404@xdos.UUCP> <20131@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley) Lines: 25 In article <20131@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >I still have the ITS-style EMACS running on two of my DEC-20 systems and, You do?! Oh, boy! You know, years ago I wrote a little animation of a guy juggling three balls in Teco Emacs once. I'll dig it up and bring it down to you and we'll compare it with the Amiga Juggler. :-) Ok, so it was only character graphics, I was proud of it... >purposes, is more featureful and reliable. The #^$%^& stack dumps from the ^^^^^^ I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I'm so rusty on my TECO that I can't figure out what this does. Doug P.S. To those of you who've never heard of TECO, none of the above is a joke...just about any sequence of characters would do *something* interesting in TECO. It was sort of an editor that evolved into a programming language; that's how EMACS ended up getting written as TECO macro's. TECO used so many bizarre control & punctuation characters for important commands that TECO macro's usually greatly resembled line noise. Very hard to properly indent, too, since tabs were an executable command... -- Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Professional Wildeyed Visionary