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Design of a simple screen editor
Author(s) -
Elliott Brig
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380120409
Subject(s) - cursor (databases) , computer science , simple (philosophy) , computer graphics (images) , human–computer interaction , multimedia , information retrieval , world wide web , artificial intelligence , philosophy , epistemology
This paper describes a simple screen editor, which could be implemented fairly easily on most interactive computer systems. A screen editor shows whole pages of text on a video display terminal; text is modified by moving the cursor and overtyping mistakes. Screen editors are significantly more pleasant to use than conventional (hard copy) editors for most editing tasks. In this paper, one editor is described in some detail, then design goals and implementation problems for all editors of this type are discussed.