Concepts of the text editor Lara

ABSTRACT

Lara, a text editor developed for the Lilith workstation, exemplifies the principles underlying modern text-editor design: a high degree of interactivity, an internal data structure that mirrors currently displayed text, and extensive use of bitmap controlled displays and facilities.

REFERENCES

• 1: Gutknecht. J. System programming in Modula-2: Mouse and bitmap display. Rep. 56, Institut fiir Informatik ETHZ. Sept. 1983. A compre. hensive treatise on the handling of the mouse, menus, and windows on the Lilith computer. Presentation of a consistent set of base modules for interactive programs. In particular, these modules underlie Andra and Lara.
• 2: Gutknecht, J., and Winiger, W. Andra: The document preparation system of the personal workstation Lilith. Seftw. Pratt. Exper. 14. 1 (1984). 73-100. A detailed description of the Andra text editor and its implementation.
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INDEX TERMS

Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.1 Document and Text Editing

          Nouns: Lara

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors