[ih] cut and paste

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didn't larry roberts write an email reader using TECO ?

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On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 4:01 PM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> AFAIK, vi was independent of TECO.  TECO started on the DEC PDP-1 in the
> early 60s.  Unix and vi came along more than a decade later IIRC.  But
> it's certainly likely that the implementors of vi had used TECO before
> or were at least aware of it.  At its beginnings, TECO was often used to
> edit programs on paper tape (!) with a printing terminal.
>
> TECO was ostensibly an editor, but in reality it was a programming
> language and runtime environment.   I recall that somene actually wrote
> a timesharing system, in TECO macros, just as a hack.
>
> FYI, here's the commands, circa 1976:
> https://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/ai/ai_600dpi/TECO_V508_Nov1976.pdf
>
> Jack
>
>
> On 8/7/23 15:47, Michael Thomas via Internet-history wrote:
> >
> > On 8/7/23 3:36 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> >> TECO, circa 1970, had a notion of "QRegisters", which were places you
> >> could put some text and later insert it into your document
> >> elsewhere.  TECO used single-letter commands, which you could string
> >> together to perform complex actions. See
> >> http://tenex.opost.com/anhc-31-4-anec.pdf
> >>
> >> E.G., "hxa" would put the entire contents of your file into QRegister
> >> "a"; the "h" is shorthand for "0,z" which specifies everything from
> >> character0 through the last character (z).   The "x" is the actual
> >> command top copy text into the specified QRegister. The command "ga"
> >> would "get" the contents of QRegister "a" and insert it into your
> >> text at the current cursor location.
> >>
> >> So, "cut and paste" were in use in 1970 and probably earlier. I don't
> >> recall the terms "cut and paste" being used, and the TECO commands
> >> were not ^C et al, but it's the same function. Emacs came later,
> >> written as a set of TECO macros and commonly loaded into the "e"
> >> QRegister - hence "E Macros".
> >>
> > I never used TECO but it was apparently a hacker's fun zone. My
> > business partner wrote an ascii lunar lander in TECO.
> >
> > Do you know if vi had any roots in TECO?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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