sbb@laplace.eng.sun.com (Steve Byrne) (02/21/91)
Archive-name: editors/teco/tecord-info/1991-02-16 Archive: tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/info/tecord.info.Z [128.146.8.60] Original-posting-by: sbb@laplace.eng.sun.com (Steve Byrne) Original-subject: Re: ftp-able docs/tutorials for TECO: where? Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) The TOPS-20 & ITS Emacs's used ITS TECO as their extension languages. This is a much more full-featured language than standard (i.e. Dec) TECO. It has many constructs that make it an extremely powerful environment to work in, yet it has the brevity of expression that us TECO hackers have grown to love. The manual for this (and, as far as I am concerned, the only real :-) ) TECO can be ftp-ed from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu in pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/info/tecord.info.Z. There's also a teco.info.Z file in that directory...it may contain equivalent information, but the manual that I always used was called tecord.info. I would dearly love to see this language implemented in GNU Emacs Lisp. While I like Lisp as a language, it's just too verbose for those quickie editing hacks. I have a very early start at an implementation laying around somewhere. I'd guess that it would take < 1 month of hacking to get a reasonable subset operating, perhaps even a fairly complete implementation, modulo the TOPS-20 and ITS specific features (like :EJ). Steve