Re: Unicode in strings

BGB wrote:

On 5/31/2024 12:21 PM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

 

For the rest, say, one can have, say, a big buffer, with an array of lines giving the location and size of the line's text in the buffer.

 In a modern text editor, one can paste in {*.xls tables, *.jpg, *.gif,
..}
along with text from different fonts and different backgrounds on a per
character basis.
 

Errm, I think we call this a word processor, not a text editor.

So, you are calling AOL e-mail editor a word processor ??? !!?! Gasp !
And every modern forum editor (this one not included) word processors
!!
Me thinks your definition is overly inclusive.

Granted, text editors don't usually store font or formatting
information
 in the text itself, but rather it exists temporarily for things like "syntax highlighting".

If a line is modified, it can be reallocated at the end of the buffer, and if the buffer gets full, it can be "repacked" and/or expanded as needed. When written back to a file, the buffer lines can be emitted in-order to the text file.

 

Not entirely sure how other text editors manage things here, not really
>
looked into it.

 If you think about it with the above features, you quickly realize it
is not just text anymore.
 

But, word processors are their own category...

Typically, they also have their own specialized formats (though, "big blob of XML inside a ZIP package" seems to have become popular).

Whereas text-editors typically use plain ASCII/UTF-8/UTF-16 files...
The great "feature creep" in text editors is mostly that modern ones support syntax highlighting and emojis.

An intermediate option would be a wysiwyg editor that does MediaWiki or
 Markdown. Though, annoyingly, there don't seem to be any that exist as standalone desktop programs (seemingly invariably they are written in JavaScript or similar and intended to operate inside a browser).

I might eventually need to get around to writing something like this (mostly because I use MediaWiki notation for some of my own documentation). Also arguably mode advanced than the system used by "info" and "man", though a tool along these lines could make sense (but
 possibly as an intermediate, with an interface more like "man" but able
 to jump between documents more like "info").

Also, bug hunt is annoying. Find/fix one bug, but more bugs remain...
My project is seemingly in a rather buggy state right at the moment.

But, I guess, did add things like file redirection and similar, along with a few more standard commands.

So, in the working version, technically things like "cat file1 > file2"
 or "program > file" and similar are now technically possible...

But, also, everything has turned into a crapstorm of crashes...

 

- anton