The Moby Munger

Summary: This issue of The Moby Munger (November 1979) serves as the official organ for the TECO Special Interest Group (SIG) within DECUS. The newsletter focuses on technical discussions, updates, and community support regarding various implementations of the TECO text editor.

Key highlights include:

• Editor's Notes: Editor Stanley Rabinowitz discusses the challenges of scheduling and funding the newsletter, as well as updates on the TECO symposium.

• Articles & Features:

  • An overview of EMACS by Richard M. Stallman, highlighting its display editing capabilities, self-documentation, and programmability.
  • "Random Ideas" by the editor regarding potential TECO-11 enhancements.
  • A debate/comparison regarding the features of "TV" (a TOPS-20 TECO variant) versus standard TECO.
  • Detailed technical notes on various TECO versions, including WPI TECO, XTEC (a TECO compiler), Harvard UNIX TECO, MIT TECO, and Multics TECO.
  • News on TECO65, a subset of TECO for 6502-based microcomputers.

• Support & Community: A comprehensive "Questions and Answers" section addresses specific user issues with VT52 support, file management, and syntax. It also includes an introduction to SQU.TEC, a macro utility designed to compress TECO macros for performance.

• Resources: A list of TECO-related DECUS program library submissions is provided at the end.