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From: Jorden Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Collaborative Sam?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:38:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaafc131003151038r4fdfe494wd3f6ce2bad187a22@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32AE495A-422F-4FF3-8924-9013BD09A623@mit.edu>

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Chad Brown <yandros@mit.edu> wrote:
> Have you read ``The Text Editor Sam'', by Rob Pike?  (http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/)
>
> A quick re-skim (especially around page 22) or so suggests that you'd want to look at the code for sam -r, and that you'll want to dig into the Rasp data structure, but (contrary to my memory), it might be possible without breaking the existing protocol.
>
> Good luck!
> *Chad
>

Yes this is a start, but I feel a bit out of my league still after
reading the paper and some of the code a few times; I just learned
enough about it to think it's possible.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-15 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-15 14:05 Jorden Mauro
2010-03-15 14:34 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-15 15:14   ` Jorden Mauro
2010-03-15 15:30     ` David Leimbach
2010-03-15 17:04       ` Chad Brown
2010-03-15 17:38         ` Jorden Mauro [this message]
2010-03-15 17:47       ` Jorden Mauro
2010-03-15 22:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-03-15 23:14   ` Jorden Mauro

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