gentoo-overlay/app-editors/teco/metadata.xml

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