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.