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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp last month

I'm learning and playing around with the TTY Editor, the command line structure editor of Medley Interlisp.

https://interlisp.org/documentation/IRM.pdf#page=262

It's the oldest Interlisp editor and predates graphical interfaces and SEdit but is still useful. The commands of the TTY Editor double as a little language for batch editing and s-exp manipulation. Think Unix sed(1) for s-exps. The language even supports EDITMACROS (wink wink). To get a flavor for the language evaluate (PRINTDEF EDITMACROS) at an Interlisp REPL.

#interlisp #lisp #editor

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David JONES
@drj@typo.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@amoroso Acornsoft Lisp (on the 8-bit BBC Micro) also had a structure editor (called SED?); i only dabbled briefly, but it was fun to use the structure editor to upgrade the capabilities of the structure editor.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@drj PC-Scheme by Texas Instruments also had a structure editor.
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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄
@mdhughes@appdot.net replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@amoroso OK, that's weird but interesting… I used to use an outliner (on Unix, probably HP-UX?) that had a similar view of the world, commands were 1-char if I remember right, but command-line.
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