Uh? Some points you mention seem to have some sense, but: * rope - do you actually know of any editors using it? I'd love to hear about them, especially if op

Uh? Some points you mention seem to have some sense, but: * rope - do you actually know of any editors using it? I'd love to hear about them, especially if open-source, so that I could try exploring the sources, and maybe contribute/fork. I know MS Word does (did?), and ABIWord does (albeit with perf issues). Especially among the "programmer editors", AFAIK, most settle on "line gap" model, or other similar simpler ones; * easier to colorize text in a console env than a GUI??? wtf? I suppose it's rather opposite, if different at all; in GUI, if you can render text, you can usually render it in any color you like; * sublimetext using webkit??? wtf again? is your guess in any way educated, as for me it sounds like a totally random shoot in the dark; from quick googling, https://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7416 https://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7416 doesn't seem so, at least for ST2.