Editors (was: Re: Is this slashdot or Classiccmp?)

[Jim Arnott]

On May 26, 2009, at 7:00 AM, schoedel at kw.igs.net wrote:

>>>> NOOO Actually .. The real holy war is
>>>> VI vs EMACS :-)
>>>
>>> Pfft. Both are for clueless newbies. The only editor is TECO.
>
> Of course vi is functionally similar to TECO, with the same "[count]  
> command
> [argument ESC]" syntax; merely a few of the command names are  
> different (It's
> those emacs guys that strayed far from the true path). Plus you get  
> regular
> expressions.
>
>>> With a half :-)
>>
>> <giggle> Do they make TECO for a Mac?
>
> $ port install teco
> --->  Fetching TECO

OMG, they really do have TECO for Mac!
<http://almy.us/teco.html>
"TECO for Mac OS X. Well, I must admit that nobody has asked for this,  
but here it is anyway. It's in a gzipped tar archive. A very teletype  
oriented ASCII text editor for a very GUI-based system, one for which  
most users never use a command line, might seem a bit strange. In any  
case, I feel that anyone who can extract the executable and put in in  
the path is qualified to use it. This archive contains all  
documentation as well as sources which you can recompile, from the  
command line, using Apple Xcode."

Loading it now!

Jim