Discuss the components of editor structure in system softare
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CS1203-System Software Unit-V--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TEXT-EDITORS
These are the primary interface to the computer for all types of “Knowledge workers” asthey compose,organize,study and manipulate computer-based information.
1)Give an overview of the editing process.
An interactive editor is a computer program that allows a user to create and revise atarget document.The term document includes objects such as computerprograms,texts,equations,tables,diagrams,line arts and photographs-anything that onemight find on a printed page.Text editor is one in which the primary elements being edited are character strings of thetarget text.The document editing process is an interactive user-computer dialogue designed toaccomplish four taks :1) Select the part of the target document to be viewed and manipulated2) Determine how to format this view on-line and how to display it.3) Specify and execute operations that modify the target document.4) Update the view appropriately.
Traveling
– Selection of the part of the document to be viewed and edited. Itinvolves first traveling through the document to locate the area of interest such as“next screenful”,”bottom”,and “find pattern”Traveling specifies where the area of interest is;
Filtering :
The selection of what is to be viewed and manipulated is controlled byfiltering.Filtering extracts the relevant subset of the target document at the point ofinterest,such as next screenful of text or next statement.
Formatting :
Formatting then determines how the result of filtering will be seen as avisible representation(the view) on a display screen or other device.
Editing :
In the actual editing phase ,the target document is created or altered with aset of operations such as insert,delete,replace,move or copy.Manuscript oriented editors operate on elements such as singlecharacters,words,lines,sentences,and paragraphs;Program-oriented editors operates on elements such as identifiers,key words andstatements2)
Explain the User-Interface of an Editor.
The user of an interactive editor is presented with a conceptal model of the editingsystem. The model is an abstract framework on which the editor and the world onwhich the operations are based.Some of the early
line editors
simulated the world of 80-character card image lines.The
Screen-editors
define a world in which a document is represented as a quarter-plane of text lines.unbounded both down and to the right. The user sees ,through acutout ,only a rectangular subset of this planeon a multi line display terminal. Thecutout can be move left or right ,and up or down ,to display other portions of thedocument.The user interface is also concerned with the input devices,the output
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