doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) (07/06/89)
In article <20131@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >I still have the ITS-style EMACS running on two of my DEC-20 systems and, You do?! Oh, boy! You know, years ago I wrote a little animation of a guy juggling three balls in Teco Emacs once. I'll dig it up and bring it down to you and we'll compare it with the Amiga Juggler. :-) Ok, so it was only character graphics, I was proud of it... >purposes, is more featureful and reliable. The #^$%^& stack dumps from the ^^^^^^ I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I'm so rusty on my TECO that I can't figure out what this does. Doug P.S. To those of you who've never heard of TECO, none of the above is a joke...just about any sequence of characters would do *something* interesting in TECO. It was sort of an editor that evolved into a programming language; that's how EMACS ended up getting written as TECO macro's. TECO used so many bizarre control & punctuation characters for important commands that TECO macro's usually greatly resembled line noise. Very hard to properly indent, too, since tabs were an executable command... -- Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Professional Wildeyed Visionary
shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) (07/11/89)
In article <417@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: >>The #^$%^& stack dumps from the [...] > ^^^^^^ >I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I'm so rusty on my TECO that I can't >figure out what this does. heh.... >P.S. To those of you who've never heard of TECO, none of the above is >a joke...just about any sequence of characters would do *something* >interesting in TECO. It was sort of an editor that evolved into a >programming language; that's how EMACS ended up getting written as >TECO macro's. TECO used so many bizarre control & punctuation >characters for important commands that TECO macro's usually greatly >resembled line noise. Very hard to properly indent, too, since tabs >were an executable command... TECO seriously DOES look like line noise... I remember writing a TECO program to renumber BASIC programs, about 6 years ago. It worked quite well, caught all references (including on goto/gosub) and was very small. I still have a listing of it, but can't understand the code any more. Given a reason, I could decipher it with some work, as I still have some TECO manuals as well, but it doesn't seem worthwhile. I DO remember the algorithym I used, on the other hand. (and I didn't make the program *totally* illegible... I included several carriage returns when I didn't need to!) Deven -- shadow@[128.113.10.2] <shadow@pawl.rpi.edu> Deven T. Corzine (518) 272-5847 shadow@[128.113.10.201] <shadow@acm.rpi.edu> 2346 15th St. Pi-Rho America deven@rpitsmts.bitnet <userfxb6@rpitsmts> Troy, NY 12180-2306 <<tionen>> "Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible." - A.K.