On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Chad Brown <yand...@mit.edu> wrote:
> Have you read ``The Text Editor Sam'', by Rob Pike?  
> (http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/)
>
> A quick re-skim (especially around page 22) or so suggests that you'd want to 
> look at the code for sam -r, and that you'll want to dig into the Rasp data 
> structure, but (contrary to my memory), it might be possible without breaking 
> the existing protocol.
>
> Good luck!
> *Chad
>

Yes this is a start, but I feel a bit out of my league still after
reading the paper and some of the code a few times; I just learned
enough about it to think it's possible.

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