Human Folly about “buffer”

Gap buffers or why bother with (scienceblogs.com):
on text #editor gap #buffer data structures (and how they compare to ropes)
on 02017-03-22
Gap buffer (wiki.call-cc.org):
Chicken #Scheme comes with a gap #buffer, one originally written for Guile
on 02017-03-22
Piece chains (catch22.net):
on the “piece chain” #editor #buffer data structure used in Bravo, Oberon, Microsoft Word, and AbiWord, which is probably not a coincidence.
on 02017-03-22
Item (news.ycombinator.com):
discussion on different text #editor #buffer data structures
on 02017-03-22
Buffer gap (github.com):
Jonathan Payne, who wrote the JOVE text #editor for the PDP-11/70, endorses the gap #buffer data structure in 1990. Interestingly, the article mentions emacsclient, which I thought didn’t exist for many years. (In fact, I learned vi in 1994 because I didn’t know emacsclient existed.)
on 02017-03-22
A brief glance at how 5 text editors (ecc-comp.blogspot.com.ar):
text editor #buffer representations
on 02016-03-08
Craft (finseth.com):
“The craft of text editing”, about how to write an #Emacs. A revised (?) version of Craig Finseth’s thesis, showing the C APIs inside his #editor to make it efficient, in particular including discussion of the tradeoffs of different #buffer structures.
on 02015-08-10