TECO Emacs

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Emacs implementation screen editor text editor

TECO Emacs is an early, TECO-based text editor that served as a direct precursor and foundational influence to modern Emacs implementations like GNU Emacs.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
TECO macro language 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Emacs implementation ⓘ
screen editor ⓘ
text editor ⓘ
basedOn TECO ⓘ
category History of Emacs ⓘ
History of text editors ⓘ
designGoal extensibility ⓘ
interactive editing ⓘ
user customization ⓘ
developer Guy L. Steele Jr. ⓘ
MIT AI Lab hackers ⓘ
Richard Stallman ⓘ
genre modal text editor ⓘ
hasFeature extensibility via TECO macros ⓘ
incremental development of editing commands ⓘ
interactive command execution ⓘ
real-time screen editing ⓘ
self-documenting commands ⓘ
user-customizable key bindings ⓘ
historicalPeriod time-sharing era on mainframes ⓘ
inception mid-1970s ⓘ
influenced EINE ⓘ
GNU Emacs ⓘ
Multics Emacs ⓘ
ZWEI ⓘ
modern Emacs implementations ⓘ
influencedBy TECO ⓘ
early line editors ⓘ
license proprietary (MIT AI Lab internal use) ⓘ
notableFor being the first widely used Emacs ⓘ
establishing the Emacs editing model ⓘ
influencing free software culture at MIT ⓘ
operatingSystem PDP-10 operating systems ⓘ
TOPS-10 ⓘ
TOPS-20 ⓘ
partOf MIT AI Lab software environment ⓘ
placeOfOrigin Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) ⓘ
surface form: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
platform DECsystem-10 ⓘ
surface form: PDP-10
predecessorOf Emacs family of editors ⓘ
GNU Emacs ⓘ
programmingLanguage TECO Emacs self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: TECO macro language
softwareGenre programmer’s text editor ⓘ
successor GNU Emacs ⓘ
Multics Emacs ⓘ
userInterface terminal-based interface ⓘ
uses TECO as underlying editor engine ⓘ
TECO command language for extensions ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

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GNU Emacs → influencedBy → TECO Emacs ⓘ
TECO Emacs → programmingLanguage → TECO Emacs self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: TECO macro language