Re: [dev] [edit] Introducing edit, a simple text editor

2023-10-23 Thread Sean MacLennan
On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:12:09 +0200 Arthur Jacquin wrote: > Undo-ing is clearly a non-trivial feature. I wrote my own editor (zedit or z) in the late '80s. At that time none of the editors I was using had undo... so I didn't add it. It wasn't until I switched to emacs a decade later that I had

Re: [dev] [edit] Introducing edit, a simple text editor

2023-10-23 Thread Greg Minshall
+1 on undo. (but, i'm an emacs user, not likely to ever be part of your customer base... :)

Re: [dev] [edit] Introducing edit, a simple text editor

2023-10-23 Thread Quentin Rameau
Hi Arthur, > I understand that some people may miss the undo feature, as it's so > common in others tools. I've given it a lot of thought when designing > edit. As you pointed out, undo-ing is tightly linked to the data > structures, so leaving it aside had major implications on the >

Re: [dev] [edit] Introducing edit, a simple text editor

2023-10-23 Thread Sean MacLennan
On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 01:26:24 +0200 Arthur Jacquin wrote: > I'm interested in having a look at the code too, in case you want to > share it ;) No problem. See the README.md for a brief history of zedit. It is probably too big to be suckless, even in its greatly reduced state. Most of the cool