Depends. I use Emacs myself for prose writing and screenplays (in Fountain). It's very doable, and Emacs has many of the same virtues cited for WordStar. How

Depends. I use Emacs myself for prose writing and screenplays (in Fountain). It's very doable, and Emacs has many of the same virtues cited for WordStar. However, for someone used to one and not the other, I'm not sure what the benefits to switching would necessarily be, at least for the task of writing prose. There's something to be said for a tool you've spent decades using. At the very least, it's one less thing to think about. I'd say a cool challenge, if someone were interested in it, would be to devise a 100% compatible (both in file format and interface) WordStar replacement that ran on all the major desktop OSes and had really high-quality text rendering. That would probably be the only way to improve on WordStar for the remaining users.