Post #1444950
2026-03-07 19:20 UTC
@kentpitman
As usual, Kent, an excellent description -- and I had forgotten some of those details, but yes, those were very real advantages.
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-07 19:25
@kentpitman Incidentally, I did *not* hate TECO at the time. I'm just remarking on some fairly objective issues with it. But at the time, I really appreciated its power (even though for me this was after using vi and emacs). Also, if one reads about its history in the literature, about how it originally worked in 8 KB with a sliding window on files, and then later versions added more and more commands and power, it all makes sense as an organic 4D creation. Which is true of most software that one is sympathetic to. @wrog @ramin_hal9001 @screwlisp @cdegroot