Re: coding text editor

llothar <llothar@xxxxxx> writes:
I'm the author of a (closed source) IDE and one of the few who is
not using the scintilla widget. I can only tell you that the stuff
recommended from steve is old and makes a lot of features impossible
or had to implement. Texts are not span's of characters. They are
structured in lines and we should preserve this.

Perhaps you can manage to convince to author of the toy program you
use for posting to usenet that preserving the line (or even paragraph
structure) of the text would be more sensible than forcing it into the
'well-kown' Windows-invented 'comb structure' ...

Independently of this, it ocasionally pays to become familiar with
something before declaring it to be obsolete for some weird reason.
Quoting from the linked paper (I have not read it entirely, because I
have no actual interest in text editing):

The more sophisticated sequence data structures keep the
sequence as a recursive sequence of spans of text. The line
span method keeps each line together and keeps an array or a
linked list of line pointers.
.

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