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OwnerMichael L. Van De Vanter, Kenneth B. Urquhartinventors
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An editor, software engineering tool or collection of such tools may be configured to encode (or employ an encoding of) an insertion point representation that identifies both a particular token of a token-oriented representation and a character offset thereinto. Efficient implementations of insert, remove and replace operations that employ such a representation are described herein. Computational costs of such operations typically scale at worst with the size of fragments inserted into and/or removed from such a token-oriented representation, rather than with buffer size. Accordingly, such implementations are particularly well-suited to providing efficient support for programming tool environments in which a token stream is updated incrementally in correspondence with user edits.
A method of efficiently supporting operations on contents of an edit buffer represented as a sequence of lexical tokens, the method comprising:
The method of claim 13,
One or more computer readable media encoding a data structure that represents as a sequence of lexical tokens an edit buffer of functionally descriptive program code, the encoded data structure comprising:
A software engineering tool that represents program code as a stream of lexical tokens and represents a cursor position therein by identifying both a particular one of the lexical tokens and an offset thereinto corresponding to the cursor position.
A method of supporting access by one or more software engineering tools to program code, wherein at least one such tool operates on the program code as a token sequence and at least one such tool operates on the program code as a character sequence, the method comprising:
An apparatus comprising:
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