[Tutor] [OT] TECO and Emacs (Was: pair programming.)

[Kalle Svensson]

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[alan.gauld@bt.com]
> > The biggest problem with modality in vi*'s is that you may be in
> > command mode but think you're in insert and type some stuff which
> > will garble your text in a scary random-looking manner. 
> 
> > I myself never found this to be much of a problem, but I know some
> > people do..
> 
> Those folks obviously never used Tico... ;-)
> 
> The standard programmers game in Tico was to type your name and 
> try to guess what the effect would be on your code(*)! The only good 
> thing I can say about Tico is that it was so bad it drove 
> James Gosling to invent the original Emacs!

I think you mean TECO.  Also, Gosling didn't write the first Emacs.
Richard M. Stallman did that, merging two existing TECO macro
packages.  Gosling wrote the first implementation of Emacs in C.

Peace,
  Kalle
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Kalle Svensson, http://www.juckapan.org/~kalle/
Student, root and saint in the Church of Emacs.
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