Comment Comment by jll29 Boehm, Atkinson and Plass (1995) proposed ropes as an alternative to strings for use in text editors.hx uses the Ropey crate (Rust library) to implement ropes: https://crates.io/crates/ropeyBoehm, Hans-J., Russ Atkinson and Michael Plass (1995) "Ropes: an alternative to strings", Software—Practice & Experience 25: 1315–1330, DOI: 10.1002/spe.4380251203, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/spe.4380251203 (cited 2021-06-01). parent jll29 5 years ago
hx uses the Ropey crate (Rust library) to implement ropes: https://crates.io/crates/ropey
Boehm, Hans-J., Russ Atkinson and Michael Plass (1995) "Ropes: an alternative to strings", Software—Practice & Experience 25: 1315–1330, DOI: 10.1002/spe.4380251203, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/spe.4380251203 (cited 2021-06-01).