Re: [Chicken-users] Implementing buffer gap

[Alex Shinn]

At Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:30:01 +0000, Joel Reymont wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to implement a buffer for my mini-editor. I'd like to use the
> buffer gap technique where a gap in the buffer is moved around to the
> edit point. See <http://www.djmnet.org/lore/buffer-gap.txt>.

Personally I dislike gap buffers, they move too much memory around and
just really can't cope with large files.  For some smarter approaches
you may want to check out

  http://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds/sds.html

-- 
Alex