From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Data structures in Unix editors
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 08:25:30 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2104020815290.23232@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bba5ddda-726f-5a0-11c0-6b17f785c4b4@dotat.at>
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Tony Finch wrote:
> A curious one is nvi, which uses the Berkeley DB RECNO interface to
> access a text file as an array of lines (RECNO = record number).
On FreeBSD as least, "nvi" is used instead of "vi" (and is linked).
And oddly enough, BDB is exactly how I would have implemented it... The
basic datum is a line after all (I have no idea about EMACS, and don't
want to know) so it makes sense to use a structure that can rapidly access
arbitrary line numbers.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-01 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-31 17:39 David C. Brock
2021-03-31 18:07 ` arnold
2021-03-31 18:23 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-31 18:20 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-03-31 18:49 ` Bakul Shah
2021-04-01 12:56 ` Tony Finch
2021-04-01 14:24 ` Richard Salz
2021-04-01 21:25 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2021-04-01 21:32 ` John Cowan
2021-04-02 22:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-02 23:20 ` Adam Thornton
2021-04-03 0:34 ` Jon Forrest
2021-04-05 23:23 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-04-01 20:12 Noel Chiappa
2021-04-01 20:57 ` John Cowan
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