Editing text is the foundation of many computer applications, and there are a lot of ways to access and manage textual data and the editing process. As a user changes text, characters and lines of data must be altered, deleted, or inserted, which in turn requires potentially large swaths of data be shifted to accommodate the changes. As you might imagine, actions like these can become extremely cumbersome and time consuming. In addition, there are times you might want to randomly access a data within a text file, say by a line. If we have a large chunk of text in memory or a file and we want to go to line 3017, the program would have to count line endings from the start of the data until it reached the 3017th link. Yuck! Let’s see what Legato can do to help managing text as it’s edited.