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From: alderson@alderson.stanford.edu (Rich Alderson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: ancient versions from emacs [TECO]
Summary: line noise?  we don't need no stinking line noise...
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Date: 18 Dec 90 00:09:18 GMT
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In-Reply-To: mayer@porky.Acuson (Ronald &)

In article <MAYER.90Dec10132807@porky.Acuson>, mayer@porky (Ronald &) writes:
>
>From the gnu-emacs Frequently Asked Questions file:
>>25: Where does the name "Emacs" come from?
>>  
>>  EMACS originally was an acronym for Editor MACroS.  The first Emacs was
>>  a set of macros written by Richard Stallman for the editor TECO (Tape
>>  Editor and COrrector {Text Editor and COrrector?}) on a PDP-10.
>>  (Amusing fact: many people have told me that TECO code looks a lot like
>>  line noise.)
>
>Back in school we used to have a version of emacs which used TECO, and yes,
>there does seem to be some resemblance to line noise.  Unfortunatelly, my
>account at school finally disappeared, and I can't find any of my TECO code.
>Anyone out there willing to give us an example of your best (i.e. most like
>line noise :-) TECO code?
>	Ron Mayer

0[a 0[b 0[c 8+8[..e
16<16<16<qa(2,)\ qb(2,)\ qc(2,)\ i
$
qc+16uc>
qa(2,)\ qb(2,)\ iff
$
0uc qb+16ub>
qa(2,)\ iffff
$
0ub 0uc qa+16ua>
iffffff
$

Documentation is left as an exercise for the reader :->

Rich Alderson
alderson@portia.stanford.edu