[TUHS] Data structures in Unix editors

[arnold at skeeve.com]

The "Software Tools" books used very simple arrays of characters
to manage the text buffers for their version of 'ed'.  Those books
are worth reading in any case. :-)

Arnold

"David C. Brock" <dbrock at computerhistory.org> wrote:

> All of the great discussion on this list about editors has made me curious about the data structures used in the various Unix editors.
>
> I found a great discussion of this for sam in Rob Pike’s publication “The Text Editor sam.”
>
> I’d like to read similar discussions of the data structures for ed, em, ex/vi. If anyone has suggestions of references, they would be very welcome!
>
> Similarly, if there are any pointers to references on some other data structures in editors like TECO, QED and E, I’d welcome them as well.
>
> All the best,
>
> David
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