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text coordinate systems - ckester - 27-06-2024
Interesting discussion of some of the subtleties which come up when writing code to display and manipulate text:
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-text-coordinate-systems
Much of this echoes Finseth's classic book on implementing emacs-style editors, but with updates to reflect our Unicoded world.
(Many people will avoid dealing with these issues by simply dropping in whatever text widget their favorite library provides, but I enjoy cooking from scratch.)