Text Editor and COrector

TECO, that grand old text editor your father used when he was young, is still available! It is powerful and compact precursor to EMACS and has a completely nongraphical user interface. This is based on Pete Siemsen's TECOC implementation, and comes with a copy of the original DECUS TECO documentation.

TECO Frequently Asked Questions

• Do I need a paper tape punch and reader to use TECO?
  No. Modern TECOs will also edit text files.
• What is the maximum size of a file I can edit?
  This version of TECO can use the systems virtual memory to edit files of any size, or it can use the traditional page techniques to maintain a very small footprint.
• Is TECO fast?
  Yes, it's probably the fastest editor available
• Must I use a mouse in the Microsoft Windows version of TECO?
  No, every command can be issued with the keyboard. In fact, every command must be issued with the keyboard because TECO does not use the mouse at all.
• Does TECO have a macro language?
  Yes, and it is the same as the command language, and very powerful.
• How much does TECO cost?
  It's free!
• Who wrote TECO?
  TECO was written by Dan Murphy at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1962. He's got a website!

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• Documentation and support files (170k)
• DOS Executable (42k)
• Windows NT, 2K, XP (also 95/98) Console Executable (69k). Revised 8/99 for correct handling of control-C and much faster execution of Teco programs.
• OS/2 Executable (requires EMX.DLL) (42k)
• Source code and some other stuff (725k)

Now, TECO is available for Linux. Many changes to the UNIX version of TECOC have been made to bring this implementation up to snuff. The gzipped archive contains the executable, documentation (some specific for Linux) and support files, and the source files necessary to recompile if you find it necessary.

• Linux TECO distribution (367k)

TECO for Mac OS X. Well, I must admit that nobody has asked for this, but here it is anyway. It's in a gzipped tar archive. A very teletype oriented ASCII text editor for a very GUI-based system, one for which most users never use a command line, might seem a bit strange. In any case, I feel that anyone who can extract the executable and put in in the path is qualified to use it. This archive contains all documentation as well as sources which you can recompile, from the command line, using Apple Xcode.

• Mac OS X TECO distribution (464k)