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  CP/M question - text editors - WordStar? paul.s.macmillan@gmail.com - 2019-04-14 13:37 -0700
    Re: CP/M question - text editors - WordStar? Paul Guertin <pg@sff.net> - 2019-04-14 20:34 -0400
      Re: CP/M question - text editors - WordStar? paul.s.macmillan@gmail.com - 2019-04-15 14:46 -0700
    Re: CP/M question - text editors - WordStar? alalainza@gmail.com - 2019-04-16 13:17 -0700
      Re: CP/M question - text editors - WordStar? David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> - 2019-04-17 00:26 -0400
      Re: CP/M question - text editors - WordStar? Michael Pohoreski <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2019-04-16 21:30 -0700
        Re: CP/M question - text editors - WordStar? alalainza@gmail.com - 2019-04-17 07:12 -0700
          Re: CP/M question - text editors - WordStar? Michael Pohoreski <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2019-04-17 21:49 -0700

#5093 — CP/M question - text editors - WordStar?

Seems like for CP/M on the Apple II, there are only two choices: ED and WordStar. Are there other solid choices out there?

I don't mind using WordStar -- especially on a faster Z80 or emulator -- my one gripe so far -- is there a way to hide the menu at the top -- which takes up about 10 lines of real estate, leaving precious little for actual file contents. I can't find any mention of doing this in the WS reference manual.

Thanks.

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#5094

On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 13:37:20 -0700 (PDT), paul.s.macmillan@gmail.com wrote:

> I don't mind using WordStar -- especially on a faster Z80 or emulator -- my one gripe so far -- is there a way to hide the menu at the top -- which takes up about 10 lines of real estate, leaving precious little for actual file contents. I can't find any mention of doing this in the WS reference manual.

I'm positive there is a way to hide the menu, I've
done it before. Try doing ^J twice.

Paul Guertin

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#5095

Right you are !!! 
The Help Level parameter controls this --- you can set Help Level from Main Menu and by default it is 3. Any lower level hides the Main Menu while editing, at least in WS 3.3

-Paul

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#5096

On Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 1:37:21 PM UTC-7, paul.s....@gmail.com wrote:
> Seems like for CP/M on the Apple II, there are only two choices: ED and WordStar. Are there other solid choices out there?

Back in the days, I had written a (reduced) implementation of vi in Turbo Pascal... I might be able to find it, although I am not sure that there is a strong demand for vi (which has been recently kicked out of Linux I think)

-Alain

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#5097

On 4/16/19 4:17 PM, alalainza@gmail.com wrote:
> [...]  I might be able to find it, although I am not sure that there is a 
strong demand for vi (which has been recently kicked out of Linux I think)

No, I think you'll find that was an April Fools joke.  vi has an 
infinite lifespan.

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#5098

Vi being removed was an April Fool's Joke. The clue was that MS Visual Studio Code was replacing it.

* https://hackaday.com/2019/04/01/bye-bye-vi-gnu-linux-distros-drop-support/

* https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/b8djiy/bye_bye_vi_gnulinux_distros_drop_support/

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#5099

On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 9:30:51 PM UTC-7, Michael Pohoreski wrote:
> Vi being removed was an April Fool's Joke. The clue was that MS Visual Studio Code was replacing it.
> 
> * https://hackaday.com/2019/04/01/bye-bye-vi-gnu-linux-distros-drop-support/
> 
> * https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/b8djiy/bye_bye_vi_gnulinux_distros_drop_support/

Excellent :)

The "information" was shared by a friend of mine who added an Emacs fan comment, making it completely believable: I think that he knew what he was doing and that *I* am the fool here :)

Thanks for the links !

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#5100

No worries!

Personally, I hate these stupid April Fool's jokes because you have to waste even more time figuring out if the news is real or fake. Basically ignore all the news on April 1. If it's important enough it will be repeated the following days/weeks because MSM doesn't know how to do anything else.

I mean it's not like we don't _already_ have The Onion. They used to do some funny shit. Some of their headlines were priceless. :-)

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