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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