LOL, yeah, I guess that's true. But I found it pretty powerful at the time, before full-screen editors were available to me.
Actually I still think it was powerful. There are reasons to like WordPad, for instance (which I use extensively for low-level documentation), but when I want to do something complicated in the way of editing - not just lots of typing from scratch, but complex edits - well, nowadays I'm content with REXX but back then I would have enthused over TECO. In fact I ~did~ enthuse over it, without winning many converts as I recall. But yeah, the comment about transmission noise is pretty accurate. And yes, I should learn ISFP's regexps. I finally started using VBS's version a couple years ago, so I can no longer argue against the utility of regular expressions in general. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* God gives what He has, not what He has not; He gives the happiness that there is, not the happiness that is not. To be God — to be like God and to share His goodness in creaturely response — to be miserable — those are the only three alternatives. If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows — the only food that any possible universe ever can grow — then we must starve eternally. -from "The Problem of Pain" by C S Lewis. */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Leonard D Woren Sent: Monday, August 21, 2023 16:13 IBM-MAIN relevancy: ISPF EDIT still rules! (But now I should learn regexps.) I never tried TECO, after reading "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL" 40 years ago. Extract: ....It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does.... --- Bob Bridges wrote on 8/16/2023 8:23 AM: > ...TECO (anyone ever use that?) is a powerful editor - it was on the PDP > platform as > I recall - with early automation features that I used extensively, and it was > full > of odd uses for <ESC> and '$' and some other characters, but it did a good > job - > once I was used to it. But whatever this Unix editor was, a half hour wasn't > enough > for me to learn much about it or get used to anything. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
