Re: teco added to ports - Fwd: FreshPorts daily new ports

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TECO is worthless.  I'm holding out for EDT.

Marc.

On Thursday 24 February 2005 10:57 pm, Dan Strick wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 19:18 -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> > Wow ... teco is finally in FreeBSD ports. Now I have the option of
> > easily installing an editor that causes ulcers and premature aging even
> > faster than ed does!
>
> Are we talking about that ancient DEC text editor that kept a current
> character position instead of a current line number, used lots of
> altmode characters in its command language and provided for huge
> incomprehensible command macros that could implement reasonably general
> programs with conditionals and loops?  Good old ed is far easier to use
> than TECO.  I always had great difficulty keeping track of the current
> character position when using TECO interactively.
>
> I once blew most of my monthly cpu allocation doing a simple file-wide
> string substitution with TECO.  I should have just reloaded the source
> file from punched cards.
>
> I recall a WYSIWYG text editor on RSTS that might have been implemented
> as a TECO macro.  I think it was called something like "VT52".
>
> TECO on FreeBSD?  This is too bizarre.
>
> Dan Strick
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