Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Juancho Newsgroups: comp.sys.amstrad.8bit Subject: Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 23:04:21 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5gameh-hmk.ln1@intheattic.eternal-september.org> References: <51ebeh-6vk.ln1@intheattic.eternal-september.org> <2j0keh-qqh.ln1@intheattic.eternal-september.org> <20210201160715.GA23286@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk> Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e66fab79433002af93877370cf669ba9"; logging-data="17522"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19qPLaJe3JcU2174hqRAZd7tfA4ovkTPZQ=" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0VBA1AP67bBaE2Zj5Y2FzjwrARI= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.amstrad.8bit:363 On 2021-02-01, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 02:02:58AM +0100, Juancho wrote: > >> So far, Protext looks like the summit of word processing power for the >> Amstrad CPC (but I've not searched much yet). > > That's fightin' talk to the Brunword users! Noted about Brunword existence for the Amstrad CPC. Looks interesting. > These days I don't use any word processor at all, I just use vim :-) Yeah, neither do I use any word processing software any more. Nowadays nobody prints and sends letters, email has replaced all that, and for email a text editor is enough. I'm currently writing this with nvi, a clone a classic BSD vi. Works fine, it's small and fast, and for email we don't need pagination, headers, footers, cross references nor end notes, lol. -- EOT