On Tue, 3 May 2022, Peter West wrote:
> Ah, a trivia magnet.
Trivia R Us :-)
> Fun fact: emacs, of that which was to become emacs, was originally
> written in TECO, an editor, and obviously a very powerful one.
>
> TECO attracted its own expansions. My favourite – Text Eraser and
> COrrupter.
Added to my list...
Having had to learn to use TECO in the past (a contract job when still at
Uni), I used to type a name into it to see what it did (every character
was a command)...
Now, the most that I can remember these days is:
E$ - edit and take a backup
Well, as least to delete a line in VI was "dd"... It was difficult to do
something dangerous with it.
-- Dave
