>>Hey, just had a passing thought of the VI on Unix, how I hated it's interface and how it was all that we were supposed to use and all the hair pulling editing it entailed :))
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>There used to be another legend, the teco editor on old IBMs or something, which allowed command line qualifiers to be chained in a single parameter. You'd call the editor with filename and a few random chars, and it would do something with the text. The jargon dictionary says there was a championship in a few places - whose name will do the most damage to the text, when passed as a parameter :).

Ah yes... teco... (Tape/Text Editor and COrrector -- IIRC). Truly an amazing beast... I think it is easier to decipher entries from the Obfuscated C Code contest than decipher teco commands.... The emacs editor first started out as a set of macros for teco.