[TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix
Arthur Krewat
krewat at kilonet.net
Thu Nov 16 05:52:19 AEST 2017
Suddenly I fell like I'm in a TECO support group ;)
I have my own implementations of TECO - both on UNIX and MSDOS (of all
things). They both do colorization of structured programming, something
that preceded EMACs colorization by a few years.
I always wondered if my released MSDOS version of TECO gave people ideas.
When did EMACS start coloring things? I started it in my TECO as of
around 1984-1985 - it supported it in text strings, parentheses, etc.
From my MSDOS version, showing some MASM code:
The structured macros were inspired by Bruce Maier's structured macros
he did for MACRO-10 on TOPS-10 in the mid to late 70's.
On 11/15/2017 2:01 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com
> <mailto:bakul at bitblocks.com>> wrote:
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> Tom Almy's version,
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>
> I'd forgotten Tom was a teco guy. I'm not sure what happened too
> it, but at some point Tom and I got the RT11 version (which was in
> Macro-11 assembler) running in V7 @ Tektronix before we had vi. Tom
> was the biggest user at that point. I was running something Phil Karn
> had brought to CMU from Cornell (and I took to Tektronix) called
> 'fred' (friendly ed) which had compiled in terminal support. Fred
> supported glass tty's; which is why I liked it even though I knew teco
> & emacs from my 10's days. Mark Bales came up from Berkeley later
> that summer and brought 1BSD/2BSD with him (that's when I learned csh
> and reprogrammed my fingers to the current rom configuration).
> Gosling Emacs for UNIX does not show up until we started running Vaxen
> and had the address space, so at the time it was ed, fred, vi, teco on
> the 11s.
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