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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:38:58 -0400
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From: Jorden Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Collaborative Sam?
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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? =A0(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 wan=
t 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.