Re: editor wars!;-)

[Christian Surchi <csurchi@debian.org>]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 01:44:45PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> > What are you refering to?  The 'line noise' that 'emacs' had 20 years
> > ago?
> 
> Yes, teco.  vi doesn't even come close in the line noise department.

I suggest the entry for teco in foldoc ($ dict teco):

...
          As an example of TECO's obscurity, here is a TECO program that
          takes a list of names such as:
  
                  Loser, J. Random
                  Quux, The Great
                  Dick, Moby
  
          sorts them alphabetically according to surname, and then puts
          the surname last, removing the comma, to produce the
          following:
  
                  Moby Dick
                  J. Random Loser
                  The Great Quux
  
          The program is
  
                  [1 J^P$L$$
                  J <.-Z; .,(S,$ -D .)FX1 @F^B $K :L I $ G1 L>$$
  
          (where ^B means "Control-B" (ASCII 0000010) and $ is actually
          an {alt} or escape (ASCII 0011011) character).
...


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