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. |