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I don't understand? Strings in JS are immutable. There's no way to mutate them.

Using strings like this will thrash your garbage collection, especially with long lines. An array, or more interesting data structure, might be more sensible.

(only pursuing this because I'm interested in your project!)



Sorry, I keep mixing up variables with types. I do not think about types when I program (JavaScript).

You might find my blog interesting: http://webtigerteam.com/johan/en/blog/editor2.htm http://webtigerteam.com/johan/en/blog/editor.htm




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