On 7/17/2012 1:22 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
(NB: ITS TECO was the first version I learned, ~35
years ago. I get
irritated when the DEC versions don't have features I rely on. It's all
POV.)
I wonder if you or anyone might have looked at the articles on the other
editors, qedx and a variant on multics?
there was a fellow James Falksen, who wrote it, and it basically took
over on multics. I actually used the macro processing language to do a
lot when I was using multics and would love to have access to it again.
http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Ted_For_Multics
The site might be of interest to those discussing text editors here as well.
I'd love to know if someone has thought about porting it from the
multics source, or if there might be a way to pull some programs out of
the multics source and convert the pl1 to compile in either c++ or c on
linux or such.
It might be doable with standalone utilities easier than the goal some
have of running multics. It also would be vastly more useful running
natively on a command line system.
All that depends on the license that bull has released it on, and I
haven't read or understood that either. I'd have no problem with giving
the ownership back to bull as long as it was available, as all I want
for now is just to run what was there.
Also I haven't looked at the issues of libraries if one were to do that,
as some things like the regex pattern matching are probably in
libraries, and might not be in the ted source.
thanks
Jim