Jim Arnott wrote:
On May 25, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Johnny Billquist
wrote:
"Fran
C. Smith" <fsmith at ladylinux.com> wrote:
NOOO Actually .. The real holy war is
VI vs EMACS :-)
Pfft. Both are for clueless newbies. The only editor is TECO.
Anything else can be implemented in TECO, if I really need it.
With a half :-)
<giggle> Do they make TECO for a Mac?
I LOVED TECO on RT11-SJ and RSX-11+. Don't have much need for it now
(no longer programming robots), but TECO rocks!
I found that TECO is most useful when repeated changes or commands are
required.
Otherwise, under RT-11, KED (full screen editor) is easier when the
changes are one
of a kind.
On occasion, TECO's abilities are also useful in a DOS (box)
environment. A version
of TECO is available to use place of EDIT under Windows. I recently
needed to change
a text file which displayed 8 number per line (with 8 digits per number)
to 5 number per
line. There were over 20,000 numbers in the final file with 4,000
lines. TECO was
able to take 5 lines at a time and convert each group to 8 lines with 5
numbers per line
as opposed to writing a once off program to do the same thing. Rather
than copying
the file into RT-11, using TECO there, then copying the file back to
Windows, I used
the Windows version of TECO.
I would never have bothered to learn TECO for use with Windows, but
since I already
have that ability, I figured why not ......
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
