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If you are interested in this kind of stuff, Craig Finseth's The Craft of Text Editing is a great read: https://www.finseth.com/craft/ https://www.finseth.com/c

• gbrown_ 10y ago
  That will make a good weekend read thanks! Others may be interested in Data Structures for Text Sequences by Charles Crowley[0] which describes Piece Tables. This is the basis for the Vis editor[1]. [0]https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf [1]https://github.com/martanne/vis https://github.com/martanne/vis