I've found that reading the source code (or at least the general structure) of kakoune[1] really helped me understand editors. I think it's a very high quality

I've found that reading the source code (or at least the general structure) of kakoune[1] really helped me understand editors. I think it's a very high quality c++ codebase for a relatively complex editor. [1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune https://github.com/mawww/kakoune