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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Overview ======== <img align="left" alt="SciTECO" src="ico/sciteco-48.png"/> -SciTECO is an interactive TECO dialect, similar to [Video TECO](http://www.copters.com/teco.html). +SciTECO is an interactive TECO dialect, similar to Video TECO. 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 @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ The Curses frontend is verified to work with [ncurses](https://www.gnu.org/softw [EMCurses](https://github.com/rhaberkorn/emcurses). Others might work as well. -Linux, FreeBSD, Windows (MinGW 32/64) and -[Haiku](https://www.haiku-os.org/) (gcc4) are tested and supported. +Linux, FreeBSD, Windows (MinGW 32/64) ~~and +[Haiku](https://www.haiku-os.org/) (gcc4)~~ are tested and supported. SciTECO compiles with both GCC and Clang. SciTECO should compile just fine on other UNIX-compatible platforms, like Mac OS X - however I cannot test it regularily and there is currently no @@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ some implementation of Curses, it should be easy to port to even more exotic pla __Warning: The SciTECO language is work in progress and has not yet fully stabilized. It may change drastically and in backwards-incompatible ways in the repository's -master branch and between releases until version 1.0 is released.__ +master branch and between releases until version 3.0 is released.__ Features ======== -* Supports most of the Video TECO commands +* Supports most of the [Video TECO](http://www.copters.com/teco.html) commands * Improved parser compared to classic TECOs, making SciTECO more similar to other imperative languages. * Operator precedence in arithmetic expressions and an argument stack that may be modified @@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ Features * Munging: Macros may be munged, that is executed in batch mode. In other words, SciTECO can be used for scripting. By default, a profile is munged. +* 8-bit clean: SciTECO can be used to edit binary files if automatic EOL conversion + is turned off (`16,0ED`). * Self-documenting: An integrated indexed help system allows browsing formatted documentation about commands, macros and concepts within SciTECO (`?` command). Macro packages can be documented with the `tedoc` tool, generating man pages. |