Re: elit.el, a listing generator in the spirit of "@"

[Michael Vanier <address@hidden>]

One-letter commands?  Wow, TECO really sounds like a lightweight language!
http://www.pdc.kth.se/~jas/retro/retromuseum.html has an implementation.
Maybe this language is due for a revival.

Back to the future,

Mike


> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:01:53 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs <Guy.Steele@sun.com>
> 
>    Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 17:26:44 -0500
>    From: Trevis Rothwell <tjr@acm.org>
>    To: Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs <Guy.Steele@sun.com>
>    CC: ll1-discuss@ai.mit.edu
>    Subject: Re: elit.el, a listing generator in the spirit of "@"
>    
>    
>    I might be asking for a very bright flash of the obvious, but why was
>    this program called @ ?
> 
> Before @ was a standalone program, it was part of TECO,
> the text editor widely used at MIT.  In MIT TECO syntax
> (which used many single-character commands), the command
> to produce an "assembly listing" of a file was the
> character "@".
>