Ropes were introduced in this paper in the journal Software, Pracise and Experience: https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380251203 https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.43802512

Ropes were introduced in this paper in the journal Software, Pracise and Experience: https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380251203 https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380251203 (best accessed from a university domain) An example for an editor that uses them to manage large text files is Xi-Editor: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor (edit: written in Rust).