I want to build a J form which is essentially a session manager.

In other words, the user will type in a line of text.  The
line will be appended to the session.  An application function
will process the line.  The result will be appended to the
session.

Sessions can be large (hundreds of megabytes, worst case),
but usually only the tail end of the session is of interest.

Sessions will be logged to a file.

Advanced versions may color the text (input a different
color from ouput, for example).

How to implement?

One approach has a richeditm which represents the entire
session.  This incurs tremendous cost updating the session
when the session gets large.  I'm rejecting this as unworkable.

One approach has a richeditm which represents the visible
part of the session.  A scroll bar would allow navigation
within the session.  Arrow keys could not be used for
scrolling (no J event handler for them).  Mouse wheel could
not be used for scrolling (no J event handler for it).

Any better approaches?

Thanks,

-- 
Raul
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