Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:24:42 +0100, Malcolm McLean wrote:

You embed the XML in the program as a string, and then mount an internal
filesystem over it. So you can use stdio functions on internal data.

Interestingly, Microsoft added a similar feature to PowerShell to let you
browse the Windows Registry as though it were a filesystem.

Of course, nobody is supposed to point out that representing system
configuration as a bunch of (editable, text) files in a dedicated
directory is exactly how *nix systems have been doing things since the
early days...