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From: IMHW400@INDYVAX.BITNET (Mark H. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re:  TECO in VMS 5
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Date: 18 Jul 88 17:29:00 GMT
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>>  For a while, now, I've been reading/hearing rumours about full-native TECO
>>coming with VMS Version 5. Somebody who knows, please tell us all - can it
>>really be true? I'd give a lot to be able to use TECO on this MicroVax II!
>>
>>/kenw
>
>It was a DEC decision to 'kill' TECO a long way back (VMS V4.0, I think), so
>it won't be coming back in a hurry.  Pity really, in what other editor can you
>type in your name as a command and see what happened.
>
>Seriously, DEC are committed to promoting TPU which has almost all the
>possibilities of good ol' TECO like editing a buffer, then using it as a
>command upon itself.  But, somehow, it's just not the same ...

The story that I heard, a year or two ago, is that the corporation *tried*
to 'kill' TECO but their own programmers revolted!  I have no idea how true
this might be, but as a long-time TECO user I can easily believe it.  I hope
that, eventually, I will learn enough TPU to be useful, but I'm looking
forward to the TECO revival in V5.

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