[COFF] editor wars

[Paul Winalski]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

>
> Also, remember that for the early DEC PDPs 1/6/10 machines, there were
> Stopgap, SonOfStopgap (*a.k.a.* SOS - which became DEC's EDIT), Teco, and
> eventually EMACS [remember UNIX emacs is a clone of the original
> TOPS-10/ITS EMACS]; and probably others that I am forgetting - those the
> ones I used in PDP-10 days.
>

TECO (Text Editor and COrrector) was interesting in a couple of ways.  All
of its commands were a single character.  It was also programmable in a
very powerful way.  EMACS was first implemented as a set of TECO macros
(the name EMACS is an acronym for Editor MACroS).

-Paul W.
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