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Author: Mark T. Kennedy <m...@acm.org>
Commit: Mark T. Kennedy <m...@acm.org>
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# TECO.EL
-TECO is an ancient text editor written in the days before most of you
+TECO was an ancient text editor written in the days before most of you
reading this were born. It supported macros of editing commands as an
-extension mechanism. The original version of EMACS was written in
-TECO by loading macros that provided the EMACS functionality and then
+extension mechanism. The original version of EMACS was written by
+loading macros into TECO that provided EMACS functionality and then
saving the memory image of the combined TECO command interpreter and
-macros as a new program ("dumping" an EMACS).
+the macros as a new program ("dumping an EMACS").
As an editor, the TECO commands (the operators of the macro language)
-were terse and powerful. From within EMACS, one could open a
+were terse and powerful. Within TECO-based EMACS, one could open a
'minibuffer' by typing ESC ESC and then enter a TECO program which
would be run (by typing ESC ESC again) to modify the underlying EMACS
buffer. E.g. if you wanted to add a new column containing the string
@@ -18,23 +18,22 @@ execute the TECO program
`<.-z; 2fwl i,EMPTY$ l>`
* "<" loop body ">"
- * ".-z" (point - end of buffer)
- * ";" end loop test (if prefix arg ".-z" is >= 0)
- * "2fwl" is really three things: "2" => repeat count, "fw" => bounds
- of a word, "l" => move forward
+ * ".-z" - an integer expression: current point - end of buffer
+ * ";" - end loop test, if prefix arg ".-z" is >= 0, you exit the loop
+ * "2fwl" - really three things: "2" => repeat count, "fw" => bounds
+ of a word, and "l" => move forward using prefix arg bounds
* "iSTRING-TO-INSERT$" (where $ is actually ESC)
- * "l" (with no args) move to the beginning of the next line
+ * "l" - with no args, move to the beginning of the next line
-While this is easily done with a keyboard macro, the TECO language
-offers more functionality and is often quicker to use if you're
-willing to pay the cost of learning how to use it. Personally, I'm
-addicted to clearing a buffer by executing the TECO program `hk`.
+While this is easily done in modern ELisp-based EMACS with a keyboard
+macro, the TECO language offers more functionality than keyboard
+macros and is often quicker to use. Personally, I'm addicted to
+clearing a buffer by executing the short TECO program `hk`.
Dale Worley (wor...@alum.mit.edu) implemented this TECO interpreter in
Elisp. It was originally available from the old EMACS LCD archive and
-was still kicking around the EmacsWiki. Since I still use it, I
-created this package to make it available from the modern Emacs
-package system.
+is still kicking around the EmacsWiki. I created this package to make
+it available from the modern Emacs package system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)>
