Look into XI Editor's Rope data structure for buffer storage.

[shymega]

I think the Rope structure would be useful for slacs, as methods to store a buffer's contents is something I've been puzzling over.

I think it should be useful to use the Rope crate for slacs.

Just need to check licensing, IIRC XI-Editor (&Rope?) are Apache 2 licensed, contrary to slacs's GPLv3 licensing.

[shymega]

For reference, it turns out Apache 2 is compatible with the GNU GPLv3, but not the GNU GPLv2.
This means that we can use Rope, if necessary, for slacs.

[shymega]

Due to the state of affairs of xi-rope right now, it is best to use a
Gapbuffer implementation instead for slacs.

For extensibility, I will be, at some point, implementing a general
set of API abstractions for buffer contents, so buffer content
backends can be swapped in and out on-the-fly, if all goes well.

[shymega]

Closing issue due to decision made.