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Gap Buffers Are Not Optimized for Multiple Cursors
Gap buffers are a common data structure for representing a text buffer in a text editor. Emacs famously uses gap buffers — long-standing proof that gap buffers are a perfectly sufficient way to represent a text buffer.
- Points
- 101
- HN comments
- 90
- Submissions
- 1
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- 3 commenters
Software EngineeringTools & Productivity2017
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2017 | Gap Buffers Are Not Optimized for Multiple Cursors by signa11 | 101 | 90 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Dec 2021 to Dec 2023.
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