<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I offered Ward Cunningham's TECO page in my earlier message - which has one of my favorite quotes: <i>"TECO Madness -- a moment of convenience, a lifetime of regret".</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I also mention Cantrell's C/UNIX version: <a href="https://streaklinks.com/Bm-JfYsNjZmndQ2FbAL4U22k/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.copters.com%2Fteco.html">Video teco</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If this was someone using teco recently, Paul's version is possible/likely as it was in C and became the teco many of used for UNIX.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For a while, I could never quite decide if I liked it more than vi, but since ed and vi were >>everywhere<< from the Cray-1 to a PC, I stopped using TECO as it sometimes took a little effort to make it work (although Paul was pretty careful) - but particularly on non-UNIX boxes (other than VMS) it might not be so easy. Since Oscar's PiDP-10 and Angelo's PDP-1 work, I'll need an editor again, so I may have to relearn it -- be interesting to see how fast it comes back. 🤔</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For systems with a C compiler, Ward Miller's s (which is a subset of vi - <a href="https://github.com/udo-munk/s">https://github.com/udo-munk/s</a>) has been my go-to. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I was playing with getting it running on V7 since it full video for a VT-100.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aY2xlbWNAY2NjLmNvbQ%3D%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=fdb18f69-c86e-453e-ad9d-7e3c68bf1a3c"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 10:36 PM Noel Chiappa <<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> > From: Rob Pike<br>
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> There was a guy in production at Google using Unix TECO as his main<br>
> editor when I joined in 2002. <br>
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Do you happen to know which version it was, or what it was written in?<br>
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It must have been _somebody_'s re-implementation, but I wonder who or where<br>
(or why :-).<br>
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Noel<br>
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