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Wil's editor

What I want out of a text editor

• client / daemon architecture
• asynchronous daemon
• piece-chain text manipulation
• api open to all of unix land
• all of unix land available within editor (exec[vp])
• structural regexp
• multifile support
• support for plumber-like utility

Other things maybe:

• use X11 clipboard for cut n paste
• multi-window (for the system to use, not for user to split screens)

Basically I want sam but without the mouse (and a terminal interface instead)

research excursions

• piece chains
• client/daemon architecture

implementation

• client/server communication with named pipes (see issue #8)
• text management with piece chains
• ... ?

roadmap

• load and save text
• receive basic edit commands from mock client ("./send-command 'raw commandstring'")

sources

[0] Data Structures for Text Sequences

[1] Project Oberon

[2] sam