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Date:Mon Sep 10 14:23:13 1993 
Subject:Re: How to end silly editor wars 
From:Robin Popplestone 
Volume-ID:930910.03 

One of the things Aaron's proposed protocol should handle is for an editor to
advise a program on -incremental updates to the buffer- so that the program
(e.g. compiler) can incrementally reparse the buffer and rebuild an internal
state that depends on the buffer (like the user's program that the compiler
is compiling).

In fact, I would argue that editors should be unbundled into (a) buffer
maintenance and (b) buffer presentation.

Robin.