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From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
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Subject: Re: Teco Emacs (was Re: PD or Shareware Copyrights)
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In article <417@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:

>>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.

heh....

>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...

TECO seriously DOES look like line noise...  I remember writing a TECO
program to renumber BASIC programs, about 6 years ago.  It worked
quite well, caught all references (including on goto/gosub) and was
very small.  I still have a listing of it, but can't understand the
code any more.  Given a reason, I could decipher it with some work, as
I still have some TECO manuals as well, but it doesn't seem
worthwhile.  I DO remember the algorithym I used, on the other hand.
(and I didn't make the program *totally* illegible...  I included
several carriage returns when I didn't need to!)

Deven
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