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Re: For The Word Lovers

From D <nospam@example.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: For The Word Lovers
Date 2025-01-03 12:43 +0100
Organization i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
Message-ID <310838ca-a332-1a10-d538-b0e74aeb96c6@example.net> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <vl3dq1$2ov5h$11@dont-email.me> <8a3bnj18b65qn3kbp09vmemdbgv4g17ido@4ax.com> <vl4q38$3148e$2@dont-email.me> <ba435ae5-f09b-0127-d613-4331a27f9e4f@example.net> <vl8364$3q4ok$1@dont-email.me>

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On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, pH wrote:

> On 2025-01-02, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, pH wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-01-01, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>>>>> rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> The last Word I liked was Word 95. After that it grew ever more rococo.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, LO Writer is my stuff.  I have WPS Office installed, too, just
>>>> for the hell of it, but I use LO.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I like the jstar invocation of Joe as I'm a wordstar fan...why would anyone
>>> use anything else?
>>>
>>> I wonder if there's a way to get LO to use the WS keybindings....
>>>
>>> I do use LO when needed but Jstar --> enscript --> lpr for most of my
>>> letters.
>>>
>>> pH
>>>
>>
>> Doesn't joe have some kind of jmacs as well?
>
> from the man page for Joe...
>
>  joe [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
>       jstar [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
>       jmacs [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
>       rjoe [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
>       jpico [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
>
>
> So it does a bunch...I think there is actually a WordStar clone for linux
> out there but I've never investigated it.
>
> I should try 'joe' by itself just to see....
>
>
> pH
>

My view is that joe is actually quite capable but lives its own life away 
from the mainstreet. As you say, maybe I should look into it a bit more.

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For The Word Lovers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 01:09 +0000
  Re: For The Word Lovers Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-01 07:52 -0500
    Re: For The Word Lovers Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-01 13:46 -0500
      Re: For The Word Lovers pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2025-01-02 01:28 +0000
        Re: For The Word Lovers Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-01 20:55 -0500
        Re: For The Word Lovers D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-02 12:24 +0100
          Re: For The Word Lovers The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-02 12:18 +0000
          Re: For The Word Lovers pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2025-01-03 07:21 +0000
            Re: For The Word Lovers D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-03 12:43 +0100
              Re: For The Word Lovers The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-03 11:51 +0000
                Re: For The Word Lovers Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-03 19:02 -0500
            Re: For The Word Lovers Allodoxaphobia <trepidation@example.net> - 2025-01-04 13:06 +0000
  Re: For The Word Lovers not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-01-02 07:40 +1000
  Re: For The Word Lovers Phillip <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com> - 2025-01-03 13:30 -0500
    Re: For The Word Lovers Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2025-01-04 18:18 +0000
      Re: For The Word Lovers Phillip <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com> - 2025-01-04 16:21 -0500
        Re: For The Word Lovers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-04 22:07 +0000
        Re: For The Word Lovers Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2025-01-07 15:19 +0000

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