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Re:Text Showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes by celeritascelery on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:11AM (#37828714)
It’s not quite that simple, but folks are working on it.

https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/issues/425#issuecomment-1...

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/211#issuecomment-...

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Re:Text Showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes by alpaca128 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:39AM (#37830091)
Maybe not in the general case for arbitrary abstracted datastructures, but I have done it in a basic test to see if it's viable for my use-case, which is why I made that claim at all.
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Re:Text Showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes by burntsushi on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:46AM (#37832789)
Note that the lazy DFA and its lower level APIs exists now and threads this needle.
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