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A Brief Glance at How 5 Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data
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Why is emacs on this list?
It is an operating system, not a text editor.
You might as well put Windows 8 on the list.
While mostly used to edit source code and scripts, there were some uses to that, such as looking at big log files. MPW was used quite a lot for internal QA by apple; some of our QA tools would spew out quite verbose logs.
Strictly speaking that's not rocket science, but I've never known a text editor to do that.
I was once asked to implement a scrolling list box with ten or so items in it, but that could scroll through 3.5 GB of search hits. My implementation was inspired by the MPW shell. The iOS UITableView works much the same way.
See if you can figure it out, I'm tired.