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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: Unicode in strings
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 19:12:49 +0000
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BGB wrote:

> On 5/31/2024 12:21 PM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> For the rest, say, one can have, say, a big buffer, with an array of 
>>> lines giving the location and size of the line's text in the buffer.
>> 
>> In a modern text editor, one can paste in {*.xls tables, *.jpg, *.gif,
>> ..}
>> along with text from different fonts and different backgrounds on a per
>> character basis.
>> 

> Errm, I think we call this a word processor, not a text editor.

So, you are calling AOL e-mail editor a word processor ??? !!?! Gasp !
And every modern forum editor (this one not included) word processors
!!

Me thinks your definition is overly inclusive.

> Granted, text editors don't usually store font or formatting
> information
> 
> in the text itself, but rather it exists temporarily for things like 
> "syntax highlighting".


>>> If a line is modified, it can be reallocated at the end of the buffer, 
>>> and if the buffer gets full, it can be "repacked" and/or expanded as 
>>> needed. When written back to a file, the buffer lines can be emitted 
>>> in-order to the text file.
>> 
>>> Not entirely sure how other text editors manage things here, not really
>>>
>>> looked into it.
>> 
>> If you think about it with the above features, you quickly realize it
>> is not just text anymore.
>> 

> But, word processors are their own category...

> Typically, they also have their own specialized formats (though, "big 
> blob of XML inside a ZIP package" seems to have become popular).

> Whereas text-editors typically use plain ASCII/UTF-8/UTF-16 files...
> The great "feature creep" in text editors is mostly that modern ones 
> support syntax highlighting and emojis.



> An intermediate option would be a wysiwyg editor that does MediaWiki or
> 
> Markdown. Though, annoyingly, there don't seem to be any that exist as 
> standalone desktop programs (seemingly invariably they are written in 
> JavaScript or similar and intended to operate inside a browser).

> I might eventually need to get around to writing something like this 
> (mostly because I use MediaWiki notation for some of my own 
> documentation). Also arguably mode advanced than the system used by 
> "info" and "man", though a tool along these lines could make sense (but
> 
> possibly as an intermediate, with an interface more like "man" but able
> 
> to jump between documents more like "info").



> Also, bug hunt is annoying. Find/fix one bug, but more bugs remain...
> My project is seemingly in a rather buggy state right at the moment.

> But, I guess, did add things like file redirection and similar, along 
> with a few more standard commands.

> So, in the working version, technically things like "cat file1 > file2"
> 
> or "program > file" and similar are now technically possible...

> But, also, everything has turned into a crapstorm of crashes...


>> 
>>>> - anton