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		ruricolist 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, ... I'd replace the underlying data structure used to represent buffers (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bu...) with something more sophisticated, like ropes or piece tables.

celeritascelery 9 months ago | [–]

I wrote some comparisons here

https://coredumped.dev/2023/08/09/text-showdown-gap-buffers-...

binary132 9 months ago | [–]

Why? Not saying it’s a bad idea, but I probably don’t understand what’s practically wrong with the simple design of emacs’ buffer class.

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