An extensible editor for a small machine with disk storage

Authors:
Arthur J. Benjamin
Affiliations:
Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1972

Citing 3
Cited 0

On-line Text Editing: A Survey

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A use of fast and slow memories in list-processing languages

Communications of the ACM
An online editor

Communications of the ACM

Quantified Score

Hi-index	48.22

Visualization

Abstract

A design philosophy for developing a sophisticated utility program is illustrated by the actual design and implementation of a text editor. A versatile data structure is employed so that only a small number of programmed subroutines are necessary for all types of data manipulation. Such a data structure is described, and its merits are illustrated by the ease with which powerful extensions can be implemented in terms of a few basic editing functions.