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Command Set Design

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Previous chapters have discussed the external constraints on implementations and the division of the editor into more manageable pieces. You now understand how to build an editor. But which editor should you build? This chapter discusses various issues involved with designing the editor’s command set.

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Finseth, C.A. (1991). Command Set Design. In: The Craft of Text Editing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3188-2_10

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