Theory and Practice of Text Editors or A Cookbook for an Emacs
Name
MIT-LCS-TM-165.pdf
Size
31.1 MB
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Adobe PDF
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Author(s)
Finseth, Craig A.
Date Issued
May 1980
Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TM-165
Abstract
A comprehensive summary of the available technology for implementing text editors. It is written to be a guide for the implementor of a text editor. It does not provide a finished, polished algorithm for any part of a text editor. Rather, it provides a breakdown of the problems involved and discusses the pitfalls and the available tradeoffs to be considered when designing a text editor. Specific reference is made to the relevant tradeoffs for an Emacs-type editor, a character-oriented, extensible display editor.
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