haahr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Gluckauf Haahr) (09/22/88)
in article <2892@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> umalir@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Rodrigo Umali) writes: > Could someone point me to some good books on writing editors? > (Specifically: what data structures are used; input/output; > aesthetics; special features.) I suppose I could read the emacs > source, but I haven't learned emacs (yet!). i would suggest rob pike's paper on the sam editor. sam is a modeless, bitmapped mouse based editor with a very sophisticated command language. the paper is %A Rob Pike %T The Text Editor Sam %J Software -- Practice and Experience %V 17 %N 11 %D November 1987 %P 813-845 the paper is both an explanation of how to use sam and a description of the implementation. sam (source) is available from the at&t toolchest. i believe that the most recent version will run on 5620s, 630s, suns, or X windows. (it can be run on a dumb terminal or from a shell script with only the command language). paul haahr princeton!haahr haahr@princeton.edu haahr@pucc.bitnet
oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (09/23/88)
Another fun paper is "A Generalized Text Editor" by Chris Frazer in CACM, V.23, #3, 1980 p.154-158 the abstract is: Text is not the only data that needs editing; for example, file deletion utilities edit directories. If all "editors" use the same command language, they would be easier to learn, remember, and code. This paper describes a generalized editor that edits text, directories, binary core images, and certain operating system data with a single user interface. See also: University of Arizona, Dept of C.S. tech note: TR 79-7a, "the display editor S*" has good followup info including complete source code. Fraser, C.W. "A compact, portable CRT-based editor", Software Practise & Experience 9, 2 (Feb. '79) 121-125 MacLoed, I. A. "Design and Implementation of a display-oriented text editor", Software Practise & Experience 7, 6 (Nov. '77) p. 771-778 There was also a sigplan issue from the early '80s about a portland oregon conference on text processing that had some interesting papers, including one by Richard Stallman on the implementation of emacs.
daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) (09/24/88)
In article <2892@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> | umalir@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Rodrigo Umali) writes: | Could someone point me to some good books on writing editors? From article <3722@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, by haahr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Gluckauf Haahr): | i would suggest rob pike's paper on the sam editor. Well, I'd suggest Bernie Greenberg[sp?]'s paper on Multics Emacs, but I don't hace a machine-readable copy any more (I couldn't afford a Multics machine when I left Honeybun). Could someone with access to this (almost seminal) paper make it available? --dave -- David Collier-Brown. | yunexus!lethe!dave Interleaf Canada Inc. | 1550 Enterprise Rd. | HE's so smart he's dumb. Mississauga, Ontario | --Joyce C-B
fst@mcgp1.UUCP (Skip Tavakkolian) (09/27/88)
In article <3722@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, haahr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Gluckauf Haahr) writes: > in article <2892@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> > umalir@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Rodrigo Umali) writes: > > Could someone point me to some good books on writing editors? > > (Specifically: what data structures are used; input/output; > > aesthetics; special features.) I suppose I could read the emacs [ deleted ] > i would suggest rob pike's paper on the sam editor. sam is a > modeless, bitmapped mouse based editor with a very sophisticated > command language. the paper is [ deleted ] > paul haahr > princeton!haahr haahr@princeton.edu haahr@pucc.bitnet ``Software Tools'' (in RATFOR) and ``Software Tools in Pascal'', both have, almost, the complete code to a editor very similar to ``ed''. It is explained very well. There is also, a preprocessors, a text formatters, and filters (i.e. ``grep'', ``sort'', ``uniq'', etc.) explained and implemented in this book. Books' authors are: Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger. Sincerely -- Fariborz ``Skip'' Tavakkolian UUCP ...!uw-beaver!tikal!mcgp1!fst UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T
oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (09/30/88)
See the last chapter of "A Software Tools Sampler" by Webb Miller (Prentice Hall, 1987) for a complete VI-clone editor called S. It is implemented in a very modular fashion, with intelligent screen optimization, undo, etc. It is an excellent start for a good editor, whether it is VI like, or something different. Also, the sources for MicroEmacs V30 [The Conroy Edition] make an excellent reading, although the come may be too brief for some. oz -- Reflections are | Usenet: ...!utzoo!yunexus!oz images of tarnished aspirations. | ...uunet!mnetor!yunexus!oz RACTER | Bitnet: oz@[yulibra|yuyetti] [an Artifically Insane program.] | Phonet: +1 416 736-5257x3976