Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:42:25 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Editor design & Buffer Gap References: <115tgk1$hmg2$2@kst.eternal-september.org> <1hEgS.428964$DOD1.142122@fx17.ams4> <11ag1j1$2lam4$1@dont-email.me> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:42:14 -0400 Message-ID: <87se2aeguh.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5S4q1J+WqVZeaZW6edsMl+Wfnz0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-EFYmmE6CXme5OFbM4u/XxWebvJebG65wLMUBfOsbZeyy9JqSEDzNSArWQruXhnnAr0fX57lOdG++C7R!5GncYa1nrJ/DJ/bM6P9Fj2BSU3JAvI/dAJn2OCPDZsyRsBA= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.editors:106989 comp.lang.c:403065 Anthony Howe writes: > The designing the edit engine is what fascinates me, regardless of UI. Pity > there are few discussions any more around this topic. I agree. I would love to play with a redisplay engine. let alone read more about them. I usually just read some old pascal books from the 1990s. I would love to reimplement lotus style menus ! > UI is influenced by the history of interface hardware: teletype printers, > serial cable terminals, block-mode terminals, PC, PDAs + stylus, fondle slabs > (tablets/smart phones), voice, "mind control"/direct human interface. These > are all interesting too, but they rely on the edit engine to do the work.