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From: Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> >Is there an effective way to implement text buffers in guile? >Unlike standard strings, text buffers should not make it expensive to >insert and delete characters from the string. I guess logarithmic cost >for insertion, deletion and looking up of a certain position in the buffer >might be the best one could get in theory. >Would it be better to implement buffers as smobs or on Scheme Level? >Do shared substrings help in this context? I've also been wondering about implementing buffers, and have a few more questions that I'd like to throw into the stream. 1. What is wrong with simply porting the existing buffer code in Emacs and giving it a SCM interface? 2. Should Guile's buffers be designed to be more general than text buffers, i.e. to be buffers (ordered sequences) of arbitrary SCM objects? (Think music, rich text, whatever... ) 3. I assume that we want to also support overlays / intervals / "text" properties. Correct? 4. Are there any interesting differences between the buffer code in Emacs and XEmacs?