ZED - modal editing macros for TECO

[atsampson]

By Vaughan Pratt. ITS TECO source and documentation available here:

http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ZED-DOC

[larsbrinkhoff]

These files seem relevant:

PRATT; DOC 490
PRATT; [DOC] 709
PRATT; .DOC. (INIT)
PRATT; DOCMAN 8
PRATT; DOC ORDER
PRATT; DOC RECENT
PRATT; DOC TTY

[larsbrinkhoff]

OK from Vaughan Pratt to publish.

[larsbrinkhoff]

ZED manual:
http://boole.stanford.edu/zed.txt

[larsbrinkhoff]

It was used at the UW SCORE TOPS-20. So naturally I searched the Panda distribution, and I found this:

https://github.com/PDP-10/panda/blob/master/files/emacs/zed.tec

[larsbrinkhoff]

Did a quick test. Executing the buffer contents runs into an error:

2<1     The second argument was less than the first?

[larsbrinkhoff]

From .TECO.; -READ- -THIS-

;PRATT'S DOC PACKAGE
DOC >           ;(PRATT) SOURCE FILE FOR THE DOC EDITOR
DOC LOAD        ;(PRATT) COMPILED DOC.  LOADED BY EJ.TECO.;DOC LOAD^[^[
DOC TTY         ;(PRATT) COMPILED DOC TUNED TO TTY USERS NEEDS
DOCORD >        ;(PRATT) DOC MANUAL

[larsbrinkhoff]

Bill Joy on ZED influencing VI:
https://archive.org/details/text-editor-email/page/n65