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Chris Finseth
Personal blog · finseth.comprogrammingwriting
Chris Finseth writes My Contributions, a personal blog at finseth.com about programming and writing. Since 2008, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 57 times, most often “The Craft of Text Editing (1999)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- The Craft of Text Editing (1999)14 people · 24 mentions · first linked 2016-01-05
- The Craft of Text Editing [1999]12 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2008-12-20
- /emacs.html2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-12-11
What Hacker News says?
The Craft of Text Editing , by Craig A. Finseth: http://www.finseth.com/craft/
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on “Build Your Own Text Editor”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing (1999) as a story · 244 points
HN discussionI think Kilo is a great little project, well-structured and very educational. Another useful resource I've relied upon in the past, dates back to the 1990s: Freyja, which is Craig Finseth's emacs-like editor written in C. Here is a list of features: * deletions are automatically saved into a "kill buffer" * ability to edit up to 11 files at once * ability to view two independent windows at once * integrated help fac…
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on “Build Your Own Text Editor”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing: Emacs for the Modern World (1999) as a story · 74 points
HN discussionThere is no substitute to building one yourself, but The Craft of Text Editing book has a lot of accumulated wisdom. It is Emacs-centric, but basics are same. http://www.finseth.com/craft/
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on “Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing (1999) as a story · 28 points
HN discussionAnother good one on the topic of text editors is "The Craft of Text Editing"[1] 1 - https://www.finseth.com/craft/
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on “Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?”Submitted RPN/RPL Implementations as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI've always enjoyed Finseth's Thesis on text editing, "A cookbook for an EMACS", which he turned into a book: https://www.finseth.com/craft/ and is available in epub form for free.
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on “Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing (1999) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI prefer The Craft of Text Editing by Craig A. Finseth: https://www.finseth.com/craft/
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on “Build Your Own Text Editor”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat are some good resources to learn more about the inner workings of text editors or building one from scratch? So far I've found and enjoyed reading/watching the resources below and would love to learn more. * The Craft of Text Editing: https://www.finseth.com/craft/ * Writing a Text Editor From Scratch: https://www.twitch.tv/gary_bernhardt/v/90796516 * A Modern Text Editor Built in Rust: https://www.youtube.com/…
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on “Buttery Smooth Emacs”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing [1999] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOr the classic The Craft of Text Editing from 1999: http://www.finseth.com/craft/
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on “Disassembling Sublime Text”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhen I was implementing a toy editor I read the neovim source code and to no one’s surprise the modes are just long switch statements - when in mode M and input key is K, do some action. It’s a simple program and your mental model is probably close to the vim source code! For learning a lot of cool stuff about implementing my best book is The Craft Of Text Editing http://www.finseth.com/craft/
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on “Batteries included with Emacs (2020)”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing (1991) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"The Craft of Text Editing" ( http://www.finseth.com/craft/ ) could also interest people who like reading about text editor internals.
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on “A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing --or-- Emacs for the Modern World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere’s The Craft of Text Editing by Craig A. Finseth: https://www.finseth.com/craft/
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on “Build Your Own Text Editor”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA description and discussion of different implementation strategies can be found here: https://www.finseth.com/craft/#c6.4
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on “Live coding a vi for CP/M from scratch”Submitted The Craft of Text Editing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you thought this was an interesting article, here 's the obligatory link to just about the only book on crafting a text editor, "Craft of Text Editing": http://www.finseth.com/craft/
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on “Optimizing an Important Atom Primitive”See also chapter 6 of The Craft of Text Editing by Craig A. Finseth: https://www.finseth.com/craft/#c6
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on “A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)”if you don't have reflinks (or some non-linux equivalent) you're going to have to load the entire file into an array when you open it anyway, even if that array isn't where you edit it the performance cost of a dumb array is being oversold here. it's true that insertion and deletion are slow in arrays, but let's put this in perspective. i'm displaying my editor on a 2-megapixel display, which is 8 megabytes of pixel…
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on “Text Editor: Data Structures”I don't know if it answers your question per se but let me mention: The Craft of Text Editing https://www.finseth.com/craft/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518170
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on “Text Editor: Data Structures”Write your own Emacs: https://www.finseth.com/craft/
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on “Build Your Own Text Editor (2017)”There is also this old book about Emacs that describes data structures for text editing: http://www.finseth.com/craft/#c6
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on “Design of a Vim-like text editor”
