On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 11:23:33 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote:
> ...; TECO (anyone ever use
>that?) is a powerful editor - it was on the PDP platform as I recall - with
>early automation features that I used extensively, and it was full of odd
>uses for <ESC> and '$' and some other characters, but it did a good job -
>once I was used to it.
>
I agree. Iused TECO on Decsystem-10 and PDP-8. I was irritated
when I got a mainframe job that required that I learn ROSCOE.
"But it's a full screen editor!"
"So what!?"
I suspect the other party's point of reference was TSO EDIT,
not even full-duplex communication! An editor should have
closer communication with the user than a programming language
paradigm allows.
>But whatever this Unix editor was, a half hour
>wasn't enough for me to learn much about it or get used to anything.
>
Even though I don't use it much, I've advocated for Jedit. Java,
therefore portable. Has anyone installed it on a z?
--
gil
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