26 Mar
2007
26 Mar
'07
10:44 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
Undo functionality was probably a major sticking
point. I don't
remember many editors from those days having undo.
Ironically, it was speed that was a major sticking point. There were
about three editors out of everything I tested with the screen/input
response to satisfy me. I'm not talking about things that take actual
time, like search/replace etc., but regular things like scrolling or
pageup/down. I understand some of these have legacy terminal roots, but
80x25 is only 4000 bytes of memory, it shouldn't be rocket science to
update it in a timely fashion... unless your text is represented
internally significantly more complex than structures of strings I suppose.
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