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रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Dec 27, 2023

“Text Buffer Reimplementation” [2018], Visual Studio Code Blog (https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-reimplementation).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16666081

Piece Table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table).

#TextEditor #DataStructures #Editor #PieceTable #VSCode #VisualStudioCode

Text Buffer Reimplementation

Text Buffer Reimplementation in the Visual Studio Code/Monaco editor

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Dec 27, 2023

“Text Editor: Data Structures” [2017], Avery Laird (https://averylaird.com/programming/the%20text%20editor/2017/09/30/the-piece-table.html).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38772754

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/xpab69/text_editor_data_structures

#TextEditor #DataStructures #Editor #GapBuffer #PieceTable #Rope

Text Editor: Data Structures

The first step in building my text editor is to implement the core API. If you’re wondering why I want to do this, the original article is here.

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