On Mar 11, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Peter Johansson wrote: >> snobol and teco and such have all but disappeared. > > Emacs is still alive and kicking. Emacs is my editor of choice as well, but I'm not aware that you can coerce it into running as a non-interactive text processing program (it wouldn't surprise me if you could, but...) At least some of the TECO versions would let you do something like that, I think... BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist