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-MD5 a1fa49c80cda812092f03eb552a8949c ChangeLog 678
+MD5 4d3e95bca7a72811e26cd6bb14a3034a ChangeLog 789
+MD5 721f86c732c9918f7d03b8a1fc52bd29 metadata.xml 2648
 MD5 8b57d774afe4775a6ffa845c0e1712d0 files/digest-teco-1.00-r1 271
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+<herd>no-herd</herd>
+<maintainer>
+  <email>taviso@gentoo.org</email>
+  <name>Tavis Ormandy</name>
+</maintainer>
+<longdescription>
+[the following was adapted from the Jargon File entry for TECO]
+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. 2. /vt./ Originally, to edit using the TECO editor in one of its infinite variations (see below). 3. vt.,obs. To edit even when TECO is *not* the editor being used! This usage is rare and now primarily historical.
+
+As an example of TECO's obscurity, here is a TECO program that takes a list of names such as:
+
+     Loser, J. Random
+     Quux, The Great
+     Dick, Moby
+
+sorts them alphabetically according to surname, and then puts the surname last, removing the comma, to produce the following:
+
+     Moby Dick
+     J. Random Loser
+     The Great Quux
+
+The program is
+
+     [1 J^P$L$$
+     J <.-Z; .,(S,$ -D .)FX1 @F^B $K :L I $ G1 L>$$
+
+(where ^B means `Control-B' (ASCII 0000010) and $ is actually an alt or escape (ASCII 0011011) character).
+
+In fact, this very program was used to produce the second, sorted list from the first list. The first hack at it had a bug: GLS (the author) had accidentally omitted the `@' in front of `F^B', which as anyone can see is clearly the Wrong Thing. It worked fine the second time. There is no space to describe all the features of TECO, but it may be of interest that `^P' means `sort' and `J<.-Z; ... L>' is an idiomatic series of commands for `do once for every line'.
+
+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. See also retrocomputing, write-only language. 
+</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>