Concepts of the text editor Lara

  • Authors:
  • J. Gutknecht

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Lara, a text editor developed for the Lilith workstation, exemplifies the principles underlying modern text-editor design: a high degree of interactivity, an internal data structure that mirrors currently displayed text, and extensive use of bitmap controlled displays and facilities.