CoreTextEditorProgramming

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* CommandLineLanguage

There are a couple of key concepts that have to be addressed in order to program a TextEditor from scratch.

ScreenManagement
WindowManagement
MacroLanguage
EditorObjectModel
KeyBinding strategy
BufferDataStructure to cover actually modifying text files
IO model
CommandLineLanguage

TextEditors can be fun to program -- that's why there are so many!

Sometimes, it can be fun to optimize just the size of the editor -- that's where we get the TinyEditors category of TextEditors.