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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.
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