Re: data structure in emacs

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

Jean Chapelle <jchapell@ulb.ac.be> writes:

> Hi everybody, i am a belgian student. I prepare a study for
> persistance in text. I'm searching for documentation about the data
> structures used in the implementation of emacs ( or other editors ).
> If someone can tell me the where I've to go for this.... Thanks a
> lot

There is Craig Finseth's "The Craft of Text Editing", which discusses
data structure for text somewhere, if I remember correctly:

http://www.finseth.com/craft/index.html

Though the book is Emacs-centric (Emacs für sich) it does not explain
the implementation of the actual Emacs (Emacs an sich).  For reasons I
did not quite understand at the time I read it, Finseth seems to
prefer a line-oriented approach (again: IIRC).  For Emacs, you can
always read the source, of course.

    Oliver
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