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From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: Textbooks on how to write editors -- info wanted
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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.

"A Software Tools Sampler" by Webb Miller.

(Warning: this is second-hand)

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.

Chet

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