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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
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- In-Reply-To: <0097FA46.98061820.19213@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- On Wed, 8 Jun 1994, Gerd Castan wrote:
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- > In the case of block operations: Have discontinuous blocks in mind.
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- > Gerd
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- 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.
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- 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....
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