Re: [dev] [sandy] [PATCH] VIM key bindings.

From: Charlie Kester <corky1951_AT_comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 06:06:39 -0700

On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 01:48:39 PDT Maxime Coste wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:59:01PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
>> I agree. Start by identifying the editing operations that the data
>> structure must support, no matter how it is implemented. Those
>> operations will form the API for your data engine, and no other part of
>> the editor should be written in a way that cares about the internals of
>> that engine.
>
>Basically you can work with a single operation: Replace range
>
>replace_buffer_range(buffer, start, end, new_content);
>
>This provides insert (start == end), erase (new_content is empty),
>and replace without needing to do erase then insert.

Very cool!

But you'll need a couple of other basic operations too:

* read the text within a given range

* search, i.e. set 'start' and 'end' given a regex. (You might want to
  have this return a set of ranges rather than just one.)
Received on Fri Jul 11 2014 - 15:06:39 CEST