| Craig A. Finseth 2004-09-02, 6:51 pm |
| In article <h3nZc.14521$AX6.13489@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com>,
red floyd <no.spam@here.dude> wrote:
...
>Ah... TECO. Truly a "Real Programmer's" editor. I remmeber it from the
>short time I spent using TOPS-20. Alas, I remember very little of the
>commands.
>
>Did you ever play the "type your name as a command" game? I forget what
>mine did.
>
>Could a TECO expert tell me what "scott" typed as a command would do in
>TECO?
Not much: "s" starts a search command, so you are starting a search
for "cott". You will, of course, need a double Esc to close the
string and start the command actually doing anything.
For those of interest, my book "The Craft of Text Editing" includes a TECO
command set reference in an appendix.
http://www.finseth.com/craft/index.html
Craig
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