On Jul 19, 12:06 am, Adam Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/18/2011 3:27 PM, Nick wrote: > > I've used VS extensively since its first release, I've hacked vim, vi, > > sed, TPU, EDT, brief, teco, emacs and probably a 100 other editors& > > TECO hackers right there on the bench with me! > And the meanest one of them, the hairiest TECO hacker of them all was coming > over to me. > And he was mean and nasty and horrible and undocumented and all kinds of > stuff. > And he sat down next to me and said: > > [1:i*^Yu14<q1&377.f"nir'q1/400.u1>^[[8 > .-z(1702117120m81869946983m8w660873337m8w1466458484m8 > )+z,.f^@fx*[0:ft^]0^[w^\ ...
In my early DEC days, we had a game which involved typing your full name into TECO as control characters and wondering what it did - modem line noise was especially worrying if you happened to be editing over a dial-up line (as we all did quite a lot using 300baud acoustic couplers). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Editor_and_Corrector Somewhere around, on some old DECtapes, I have some amazing animated graphic macros I wrote in TECO, ISTR I mostly invoked it using MUNG. One thing to point out, fun though it was, looking through rose-tinted glasses, its easy to forget just how crude and user-abhorrent these systems were... Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
