• Title The Craft of Text Editing: Emacs for the Modern World
• Author(s) Craig A. Finseth
• Publisher: Lulu.com; 3rd edition (March 17, 2006); Springer; Softcover reprint (July 29, 2013)
• Paperback: 228/232 pages
• eBook: HTML, PDF, ePub, Mobi, LaTex, and PostScript
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1411682971/1461278279
• ISBN-13: 978-1411682979/978-1461278276
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Book Description

This book covers all of topics related to text editing and more. By following the design of a character-based text editor, you will learn what goes into the such programs.

In the process, it discusses many aspects of creating a large application program including user interface, speed/memory/I/O tradeoffs, and many other considerations. After reading this book, you should have a clear understanding of how to go about writing text editing or word processing software. In addition, this book introduces the concepts and power of the Emacs-type of text editor. This type of editor can trace its roots to the first computer text editor written and is still by far the most powerful editor available.

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