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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Overview ======== -SciTECO is an interactive TECO dialect, similar to [VideoTECO](http://www.copters.com/teco.html). +SciTECO is an interactive TECO dialect, similar to [Video TECO](http://www.copters.com/teco.html). It also adds features from classic TECO-11, as well as unique new ideas. The basic approach to text editing is both radically different and surprisingly similar to popular @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Features Some of these features are not yet present but expected to be supported in the near future. -* All of the basic VideoTECO commands supported +* All of the basic Video TECO commands supported * Operator precedence in arithmetic expressions and an argument stack that may be modified by the user (commands may have more than two arguments) * Extended Q-Register namespace (arbitrary strings): can be used to build libraries and @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ Some of these features are not yet present but expected to be supported in the n * Many TECO-11 features, like that most commands have a colon-modified form, string-building characters, exotic match characters * Interactivity: supports filename completion via immediate editing commands (e.g. `<TAB>` in - commands accepting filenames); immediate searching (similar to search-as-you-type) + commands accepting filenames); immediate searching (similar to search-as-you-type); + context-sensitive immediate editing commands * Command rubout: SciTECO can even undo file writes (`EW` command) * Munging: Macros may be munged, that is executed in batch mode. By default, a profile is munged. @@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ Installation SciTECO has the following build and runtime dependencies: * Autotools, GNU C, C++ and [Gob2](http://www.jirka.org/gob.html) +* Groff (only when formatting HTML manuals) * [Glib](http://developer.gnome.org/glib/), as a cross-platform runtime library * [Scintilla](http://www.scintilla.org/), and possibly [Scinterm](http://foicica.com/scinterm/) (v1.1 or later) @@ -72,7 +74,6 @@ SciTECO has the following build and runtime dependencies: Additional Documentation ======================== -* There is a manpage sciteco(1) describing program invocation and SciTECO's +* There is a manpage __sciteco__(1) describing program invocation and SciTECO's batch mode processing. - -More documentation is coming soon. +* There is a manpage __sciteco__(7) describing SciTECO as a language. |