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From: walker@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Rick Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Textbooks on how to write editors -- info wanted
Message-ID: <62420014@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 90 03:43:46 GMT
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Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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> >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.
> 
> "A Software Tools Sampler" by Webb Miller.
> 
> In the book, Miller develops a vi-like screen editor from the bottom up,
> with lots of attention paid to redisplay algorithms (the resultant one is
> kind of ad-hoc, but works well).
> 
> Sorry, no ISBN #.  I'm sure someone else will supply it.

Great book.  The ISBN is 0-13-822305-X 025.  Copyright 1987, Prentice-Hall.

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Rick Walker