I've occasionally thought of writing a TECO-like editor for myself. But what with ISPF Edit macros, and ooRexx, and like that, I guess there isn't really much point, is there? Unless it's just for fun...
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Of a proposed course of action [God] wants men, so far as I can see, to ask very simple questions: Is it righteous? Is it prudent? Is it possible? Now, if we can keep men asking "Is it in accordance with the general movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is this the way that History is going?", they will neglect the relevant questions. -advice to a tempter, from The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 12:20 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. --- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
