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Wil's editor
What I want out of a text editor
- client / daemon architecture
- asynchronous daemon
- piece-chain text manipulation
- api open to all of unix land
- all of unix land available within editor (exec[vp])
- structural regexp
- multifile support
- support for plumber-like utility
Other things maybe:
- use X11 clipboard for cut n paste
- multi-window (for the system to use, not for user to split screens)
Basically I want sam but without the mouse (and a terminal interface instead)
research excursions
implementation
- client/server communication with named pipes (see issue #8)
- text management with piece chains
- ... ?
roadmap
- [ ] load and save text
- [ ] receive basic edit commands from mock client ("./send-command 'raw commandstring'")
sources
[0] Data Structures for Text Sequences
[1] Project Oberon
[2] sam