Not being given the option of installing packages on setup

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:31:06PM -0600, Cary Jamison wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I started out on a PDP-10 using first TECO, then SOS, then FINE (fine
>> is not emacs), then EDT.  When I started working mainly on UNIX
>
>Ah, TECO - now there was a real editor.  Looked like complete gibberish, 
>which reminds me of this old article :
>
>http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
>
>A guy I worked with wrote a TECO macro to search through all our source code 
>in all directories to do a global search/replace of a function call he 
>wanted to changed.  Doesn't sound too hard today, using sed or other global 
>search/replace editors, but it was pretty impressive for the time....
>
>I quickly learned about vtteco and started using it, though.  Similar to the 
>visual mode of edt, but I liked it better.

Yeah, you have to love an editor where you could spend all day typing
and then wipe out everything with a simple one letter typo.

Still for raw power, it was tough to beat.

cgf