From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: "David C. Brock" <dbrock@computerhistory.org>
Cc: "tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Data structures in Unix editors
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 13:56:15 +0100 [thread overview]
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David C. Brock <dbrock@computerhistory.org> wrote:
>
> I’d like to read similar discussions of the data structures for ed, em,
> ex/vi. If anyone has suggestions of references, they would be very
> welcome!
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).
Tony.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-01 13:22 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 [this message]
2021-04-01 14:24 ` Richard Salz
2021-04-01 21:25 ` Dave Horsfall
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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