[TUHS] Data structures in Unix editors

[Tony Finch]

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

A curious one is nvi, which uses the Berkeley DB RECNO interface to access
a text file as an array of lines (RECNO = record number).

Tony.
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