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Rope science - Introduction

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A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.

In April and May 2016, when I was working out the design for xi editor, I wrote a series of Google-internal posts I entitled “rope science”, which dug into some of the advanced computer science concepts I was hoping to employ to make xi better, as well as some more speculative explorations. I had always intended to publish these after some cleanup and polishing, but never got around to it. For the curious and persistent, here are the original posts, with a bit of light editing and context (including cherry-picks from ensuing discussion). They will probably be helpful to understand xi…

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