Xref: utzoo comp.editors:1635 comp.misc:9435 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA!afsipmh From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel) Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.misc Subject: Re: Textbooks on how to write editors -- info wanted Message-ID: <1990Jul7.230615.29437@cid.aes.doe.CA> Date: 7 Jul 90 23:06:15 GMT References: <90179.150818QQ68@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> <25697@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Reply-To: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel) Organization: Environment Canada Lines: 18 In article <25697@unix.cis.pitt.edu> rozin@unix.cis.pitt.edu (R Rozin) writes: >In article <90179.150818QQ68@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> QQ68@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (David Harper) writes: >>Does anyone know of a good textbook on the design and implementation >>of editors ? A book that has examples in C would be ideal, but at >>this stage, I'd be grateful for any suggestions at all. > >The book "Advanced C Programming for Displays", by Mark Rochkind, presents, >in a bottom up fashion, the design and implementation of a complete screen >editor in C. This is a good book BUT led to frustration on my part because the text for an important header file is omitted in the keyboards chapter. Anyone happen to know the contents of keyboard.h ? -- Pat Hertel Canadian Meteorological Centre Analyst/Programmer Environment Canada phertel@cmc.aes.doe.ca "Nobody loves me but my mother and she could be jiving too" - B.B. King