Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Editor source code Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 91 21:16:13 GMT References: <1991Apr25.024217.5952@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 27 In-reply-to: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM's message of 27 Apr 91 08:33:35 GMT In article Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: | >>>>> On 25 Apr 91 02:42:17 GMT, amigo@milton.u.washington.edu (The Friend) said: | | The> I'm currently in progress on a basic text editor. If anyone | The> can provide some source code to an editor, it'd help considerably | The> (editors aren't easy to design). | | pick up GNU Emacs from prep.ai.mit.edu While I am an ardent GNU emacs and epoch user, I would say GNU emacs is definately not a basic text editor, and it's internals can be complex (trust me, I've ported it to 3 different machines, and wrote unexec for two object file formats). Something like mg might be better. I seem to remember that there articles last year about either MIT tech reports or books from the MIT Press about the general editor design issues. Also, I am probably wrong, but the original article smells like a Comp Sci homework assignment.... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?