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by Joker_vD 757 days ago
> It would be hard to imagine a program for editing text that doesn't have a cursor.

Ed is the standard text editor. It doesn't waste precious kilobytes on cursor positioning code.

Speaking seriously, this inherent need for the feedback from the user presentation layer back into the internals is why writing a decent multi-line editor with non-monospace fonts is such a nuisance.