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Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks

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In article <20140515155348.022768f5.rsw@therandymon.com>,
RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>On 15 May 2014 12:50:34 GMT
>Rich <rich@example.com> wrote:
>> It is also possible, although this seems unlikely today, that he simply
>> prints hardcopy to send to the publisher.
>
>It's coming back!  Check it out: somebody at Soylent just linked to
>this: a modern version that hopes to re-implement Wordstar.  It's called
>wordtsar.
>http://wordtsar.ca

The text editor that came with DR DOS 6 and up supported some of Wordstar's
command set:

http://www.drdos.net/documentation/usergeng/06ugch6.htm

>This chapter describes how to use EDIT, a menu-based editor which you can
>use to create and edit text files. You can use a keyboard or mouse, and
>there are shorthand forms for some of the common commands, including
>WordStar* compatible commands.

I had never used Wordstar, but EDIT was easy enough to pick up.  Upon
switching to Linux, I found that joe was eerily similar to EDIT, much
smaller than Emacs, and easier to use than vi:

http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/

>JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed
>under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988
>and comes standard with many Linux distributions.
>
>JOE is a blending of MicroPro's venerable microcomputer word processor
>WordStar and Richard Stallman's famous LISP based text editor GNU-EMACS (but
>it does not use code from either program): most of the basic editing keys
>are the same as in WordStar as is the overall feel of the editor. JOE also
>has some of the key bindings and many of the powerful features of EMACS.

It's what I'm using right now to type this reply. :-) It runs on nearly
anything; I've run it on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.  Other than running
in a terminal window, I suspect it's pretty close to what WordTsar is aiming
to do.

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Wordstar on DOS still rocks RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-14 09:52 +0000
  Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks sail0r <sail0r@example.com> - 2014-05-14 23:31 -0400
    Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-05-15 07:02 +0000
      Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-15 08:31 +0100
        Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-15 11:50 +0000
          Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-15 12:50 +0000
            Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-15 15:53 +0000
              Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-05-15 17:27 +0000
                Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-15 18:10 +0000
                Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-16 03:53 +0000
      Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-15 15:59 +0000
        Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-05-15 17:08 +0000
          Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-15 23:31 +0000
            Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-05-15 18:02 -0700
              Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-16 03:56 +0000
                Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-05-19 11:30 -0700
            Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-05-16 06:06 +0000
        Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-05-19 23:14 +0300
          Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-19 23:12 +0000
    Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-15 15:59 +0000
    Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-05-15 17:10 +0000
      Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-15 17:55 +0000
        Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-15 23:33 +0000
          Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks "John" <j@j.j> - 2014-05-22 10:32 -0700
  Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-16 09:59 +0100
    Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-18 19:01 +0200
  Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-16 18:10 +0100
    Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-18 14:11 +0000
      Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-18 16:18 +0100

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