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Re: How does one write a good text editor?

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From: Chris Dollin
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 08:15

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In article <17993@acorn.co.uk> pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) writes:

   >If you were writing a text editor which allowed text effects (eg font
   >changes, colour changes, etc) to be applied, how would you hold the
   >data? My initial thoughts are:

How about a vector of lines, with each line being a vector of chunks, with each
chunk being a string and a vector (or list) of effects?

It depends a little how line-breaking works, of course.
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 08:15:58 GMT
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