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From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  AmigaTECO (I kid you not)
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.154444.21199@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 30 Dec 90 15:44:44 GMT
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kenk@algedi.UUCP (Ken Koster (N7IPB)) writes:
> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>> kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley) writes:
>>> All right, all you hairy-chested Amiga hackers out there,
>>> Seen on alt.folklore.computers:
>>> rice@dg-rtp.dg.com (Brian Rice) writes:
>>>:> zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts) writes:
>>>: You can ftp TECO stuff from usc.edu in directory /pub/teco.  This

>>>: MS-DOS, the Macintosh OS, and (soon) the Amiga.

>> Ah! The world's most nearly universally lethal editor; TECO makes
>> typing ...

> Ah yes, TECO the editor with which (dare I say it) you can RULE THE
> WORLD :-)

Or watch a grown man break down and cry. Edit a file with TECO. At the
top, get distracted, forget you're in TECO command mode, and type
"edit". You just:

	moved the curser to the "e"nd of the file;
	"d"eleted every thing from mark (by default the initial cursor
		position, top of file) to dot (the current position);
	went into "i"nsert mode;
	inserted a "t".

My favorite TECO story.  ;-)

Fastest way known to destroy software is to let your attention slip using
TECO; TECO users mainline caffeine just to stay alert enough to edit.

> I want it, I want it, a piece of my past, the editor as programming
> lanquage.

The editor as ravening destroyer of souls; same difference.

> Maybe I can scare up my old Data I/O control program, ALL written in
> TECO :-)

Love to see it.

Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>