On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 11:53 AM Thomas Passin <tbp100...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Remembering back to long ago when we only had 640k of RAM at the most, > there were editors that kept three screens of data in memory at once - the > current page, the previous page, and the next page. When the user scrolled > forward (say), parts of the next page would be brought in, and when > necessary another page would be read in from disk. An analogy would be a > long continuous (paper) scroll, where only one part in the middle would be > visible at any one time. > > This scheme would seem to fit right in with your thoughts above. > Alas not. Leo's clone-find commands would pull in the entire db. That's why we need a search that is disconnected from positions and generators. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAMF8tS1_V4gYOmzf6w_fnjbUEUhZ0Gb6S97V_Wim3zWS9cGKNA%40mail.gmail.com.
