Application of remote editing protocol on Japanese terminal emulator

摘要

We introduce Remote Editing Protocol (REP) which is a special network protocol for text editing. REP is a command sequence on text buffers in clients and servers, which has good resistance on network delay or network failure, and it is good for large text editing. We have been implemented REP on pico, Emacs and Mac OS X's TextEdit. Here we show that REP is not mere remote text editing, but it is also a communicating protocol among applications. We present a combination of kterm (Terminal Program on X Window) and TextEdit. The result is a Japanese Terminal Emulator on Mac OS X.