Project on Text Editor

By:
Vishal Kumar(1742210124)
Vishal Mishra(1742210125)

Under Supervision of
Mrs.Dakshita Joshi
(Teacher)
Submitted to the Department of Comuter Science and Engineering, Lucknow
Bachelore of Technology
In
Computer Science and Engineering

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Bansal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow
2020-21
 An Interactive text editor has become an
important part of almost any computing
environment
 Text editor acts as a primary interface to the
computer for all type of “knowledge workers” as
they compose, organize, study, and manipulate
computer-based information.
 A text editor allows you to edit a text file (create,
modify etc…).
 The common editing features associated with
text editors are, Moving the cursor, Deleting,
Replacing, Pasting, Searching, Searching
and replacing, Saving and loading, and,
Miscellaneous(e.g. quitting)
 Windows OS - Notepad, WordPad, Microsoft
Word, and text editors.
 UNIX OS - vi, emacs, jed, pico.
 Gui based editors
• Gedit gvim
• Nedit
• Tea
• subtime
 Overview of the editing
process
 Document-editing process involves-
 - Select the part of the target document to be viewed
and manipulated
 - Determine how to format this view on-line and how to
display it
 - Specify and execute operations that modify the
target
document
 - Update the view appropriately
O The above task involves traveling, filtering and
formatting. Editing phase involves
O – insert, delete, replace, move, copy, cut,
paste, etc…
O - Traveling – locate the area of interest
O - Filtering - extracting the relevant subset
O - Formatting – visible representation on a display
 User
Interface
O Conceptual model of the editing system provides
an easily understood abstraction of the target
document and its elements.
O Line editors – simulated the world of the key
punch – 80 characters, single line or an integral
number of lines,
O Screen editors – Document is represented as a
quarter-plane of text lines, unbounded both down
and to the right.
O The user interface is concerned with, the input
devices, the output devices and, the interaction
language.
O Input Devices are divided into three categories, text
devices, button devices and, locator devices.
O Text Devices are keyboard.
O Button Devices are special function keys, symbols
on the screen.
O Locator Devices are mouse, data tablet.
O voice input devices which translates spoken
words
to their textual equivalents.
O Output Devices are Teletypewriters (first output
devices), Glass teletypes (Cathode ray tube (CRT)
technology), Advanced CRT terminals, TFT
Monitors
(Wysiwyg) and Printers (Hard-copy).
O The interaction language could be, typing
oriented or text command oriented and menu-
oriented user interface.
O Typing oriented or text command oriented
interaction was with oldest editors, in the form of
use of commands, use of function keys, control
keys
etc.,
O Menu-oriented user interface has menu with a
multiple choice set of text strings or icons.
Display area for text is limited. Menus can be
turned on or off.
Typical Editor Structure
Diagram
 Components of Editor
Structure
OCommandlanguage processor:
It accepts input from the user’s input
devices, and analyzes the tokens and syntactic
structure of the commands.
The command language functions much like
the lexical and syntactic phases of a complier.
In complier CLPmay invoke semantic
routines directly.
 In a text editor, these semantic routines
perform functions suchas editing and viewing.
CLPmay produce an intermediate
representation of the desired editing operations.
This intermediate representation is then
decoded by an interpreter that invokes the
appropriate semantic routines.
The use of an intermediate representation
allows the editor to provide the variety of user-
interaction languages with a single set of semantic
routine.
 The routines involves travelling, editing, viewing and display
functions.
•O Editing operationsare alwaysspecified explicitly bythe user.
• OThe Display operationsare specified implicitly bythe other three categories of operations.
• OThe travelling and viewingoperations maybeinvoked either explicitly bythe user or implicitly bythe
editing operations
• OThere is a relationship between this classes of operations and it is considerably morecomplicated
than a simple model.
Simple relationship between editing and
viewing buffers
 Current editing
pointer
OIn editing a document, the start of the area to be edited
is determined by the editing component (which deals in
editing task).
OThe current editing pointer can be set or reset explicitly
by the user with traveling command such as…
O Next paragraph
O Next screen.
OOr implicitly by the system as a sideeffect suchas
delete paragraph.
OThe traveling componentof the editor actually performs the
setting of the current editing and the viewing pointers and
determines the point at which the viewing orediting
filtering begins.
OWhen the user issues an editing command the
editing component invokes the editing filter.
OThis filter generates a new editing buffer based on
the current editing pointer.
OThese parameters which are specified both by the user
and the system, provide information suchas the range of
the text that can be affected by an operation.
End of CEP
 Current viewing
pointer
OIn viewing a document, the start of the area to be viewed
is determined by the current viewing pointer.
OThis pointeris maintained by the viewing component
of the editor
OThe current viewing pointer can be set or reset
explicitly by the user with a travelling command or
explicitly by the system as a result of the previous
editing operation .
OWhen the display needs to be updated, the
viewing componentinvoked the viewing filter.
OThis component filters the document to generate the new
viewing buffer based on the current viewing pointer as well
ason the viewing filter parameters.

OThis parameters which is specified both by the user and

system, provide information suchas the numberof
characters needed to fill the display and how to select
them from the document..
OThe editing and viewing buffers, while independent, can
be related in many ways. In the simplest case..
OThey are identical, the user edits the material directly on
the screen
Thank you…!!!