<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Harry,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Your memory is fine - TECO used "er" to open the input file and "eb" to open it read/write. I used TECO for many years, and even wrote my own implementation in C, and later I was responsible for the DECUS TECO library, then later still for the de-facto TECO archive, which I recently put on SourceForge, at</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/teco/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/teco/</A></DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kinda weird that I started this thread on the TextMate list and ended up discussing TECO...<DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- Pete</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 23, 2007, at 9:09 PM, Harold W. Schranz wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cliff Pruitt wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm honestly not putting down the desire for the feature, it's just not an "expected" feature in an editor. Am I making sense?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Not really ... I think a read-only mode should be a standard feature of any serious editor. Just consider past examples e.g. vi, Emacs, Edt,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>possibly even TECO (but my memory fails me here; digression: TECO is probably the most powerful/dangerous/sparse/delightfully cryptic text (character) editor that's ever existed; Emacs used to be written in it).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Harry.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>