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The Deuce Editor Architecture (2014)

I come from a strange land where we program in a language called Dylan (opendylan.org). In that land, we have an editor called Deuce, which is a descendent of ZWEI, a predecessor to emacs. It has some interesting features: Lines are polymorphic. They can contain text, graphics, etc. There is the concept of ‘Source containers’ and ‘source sections’. A buffer is composed of ‘source sections’ which can come from different containers. In a nutshell this means you can have a single buffer where d...

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