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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 11:26:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: Proposal v5
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <0097FA46.98061820.19213@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9406081104.B12642-0100000@grad>
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On Wed, 8 Jun 1994, Gerd Castan wrote:
>
> In the case of block operations: Have discontinuous blocks in mind.
>
> Gerd
>
Microsoft Excel was able to do that, and it handled blocks very
similiarly to the way Atari Works does, where the cursor is constrained
to within the block. It works very nicely and helps to keep things
orderly when the user is entering lists.
But I've never seen a text editor (I haven't seen the one you mention)
that did discontinuous blocks. Sounds like it would be a pain to deal
with... I'd need to keep track of ANOTHER linked-list in memory.
<grumble> Memory management....