Adam Thornton writes: > > All this discussion about line editors made me think a bit of the one editor > > that Linux doesn't have that should be there: TECO. For those of you who > > never encountered this wonder of the world, TECO wasn't "what you see is > > what you get", it was "you asked for it, you got it". No safeties, no > > backups, no undo, just sheer raw power. Edits anything, including raw disk > > and tape. Not for normal mortals, as shown below: > > [snip] > > Oh, lay off the cough syrup, David. > > Of *course* Teco exists for Linux: > ftp://ftp.mindlink.net/pub/teco/ptf_teco.tar.gz > > I just changed the -ltermcap to -lncurses in the Makefile and it was > fine.
I also came across vteco some years back which was a full-screen TECO with infinite undo: the bottom line of the screen was the usual TECO command line while the rest of the screen showed the contents of the file (er, buffer). As you typed each ESCAPE (to execute a command: it displays as "$"), the display of the file contents were immediately updated; as you backspace over the commands to delete them, the undo kicks-in and the display reverts bit by bit. Wonderful stuff. When you do a "$$", the undo-buffer is flushed and you get a "fresh" TECO command line, as usual. The problem is that I only found an Ultrix (MIPSEL) executable--there was no source--and I can't even remember where I got that from. I did manage to use the convert-ultrix-executable-to-alpha-executable program (whatever its name was) to get a working binary for OSF/1 on Alpha but that's no good to me now. Pity. --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Technical Consultant IBM EMEA Enterprise Server Group... ...from home, speaking only for myself
