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From: ant@mks.com (Anthony Howe)
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Subject: Re: Textbooks on how to write editors -- info wanted
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Date: 10 Jul 90 13:02:51 GMT
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>"A Software Tools Sampler" by Webb Miller.

ISBN 0-13-8222305X  Prentice-Hall

>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).

The redisplay algorithm is based on a paper...

"A simple row-replacement method"
Eugene W. Myers & Webb Miller
TR 86-28
Dept. of C.S.
U. of Arizona

Webb's book & paper, plus the EMACS Cookbook, are three very useful texts on
editors. Webb covers link-list buffer and redisplay, while the Cookbook covers
gap buffer. 

- ant
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