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Re: How does one write a good text editor?

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From: Jon. Hallett
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:59

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In article <25258@castle.ed.ac.uk> jamesh@castle.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton) writes:

[...]
>What you do is you have the text split in two(this is where the cursor
>currently is) with one block of text at one end of the array and the
>other at the opposite end of the array:
[...]

Yep, this is the scheme that emacs uses (and TECO before it if the
comments in the emacs source are to be believed).  See the files
emacs-18.58/src/insdel.c and emacs-18.58/src/buffer.h in the emacs
distribution for the code itself.

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