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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
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<pkgmetadata>
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<maintainer>
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<email>ulm@gentoo.org</email>
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<name>Ulrich Müller</name>
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</maintainer>
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<longdescription lang="en">
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TECO /tee'koh/ /n.,v. obs./ 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper]
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Tape Editor and COrrector'; later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] /n./
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A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody.
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With all the dialects included, TECO may have been the most prolific
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editor in use before EMACS, to which it was directly ancestral.
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Noted for its powerful programming-language-like features and its
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unspeakably hairy syntax. It is literally the case that every string
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of characters is a valid TECO program (though probably not a useful
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one); one common game used to be mentally working out what the TECO
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commands corresponding to human names did.
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In mid-1991, TECO is pretty much one with the dust of history,
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having been replaced in the affections of hackerdom by EMACS.
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Descendants of an early (and somewhat lobotomized) version adopted
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by DEC can still be found lurking on VMS and a couple of crufty
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PDP-11 operating systems, however, and ports of the more advanced
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MIT versions remain the focus of some antiquarian interest.
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</longdescription>
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</pkgmetadata>
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