🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <20518@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, achowe@tiger.waterloo.edu (anthony howe) writes:
> Is there a bible or standard text that has the of the theory behind
> the issue of roling your own editor worked out?

Don't know of a bible, but there is a cookbook:

     MIT/LCS/TM-165
     Theory and Practice of Text Editors Or A Cookbook for an EMACS
     Craig A. Finseth
     May 1980
       Laboratory for Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
       545 Technology Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

106 pages.

[was his B.S. thesis]

3 page introduction
29 pages on memory management including: buffer gap, linked line,
   multiple buffers, paged virtual memory, editing extremely large files
   and scratchpad memory.
21 pages on incremental redisplay including: line wrap, multiple windows,
   terminal types, redisplay algorithms, The Framer, and memory mapped
   systems.
20 pages on the command loop including: read-eval-print, error
   recovery, arguements, rebinding keys and functions, modes, kill and
   undo, and implementation languages (teco, sine, lisp, pl/1, C,
   fortran, pascal, ...)
7 pages on user interface hardware including: keyboards and graphical input.
3 pages on the world outside text editing.
10 pages of annotated bibliography.
1 page on some implementations of emacs type editors
6 pages on partial emacs command list

enjoy.

---- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)