While WordStars page metaphor actuall is quite interesting. to be fair, a lot is just about an environment that you're really used to. So yes, that could be Wor

While WordStars page metaphor actuall is quite interesting. to be fair, a lot is just about an environment that you're really used to. So yes, that could be WordStar, WordPerfect or emacs/vim. Or MS Word (which still has a better outline mode than most alternatives). I'd doubt that a lot of the authors mentioned in the article switched to WordStar after using something significantly capable for years. So we're mostly looking at a certain age bracket (i.e. age when they adopted computers). Different professional background would influence that. I've heard that journalists were quite enamored of XyWrite and lawyers really loved (early) WordPerfect. If you're a computer scientist, Emacs might be an option. Vernor Vinge would be an example[1]. Then came the long years where MS Word had an monopoly, but in a few years we'll probably hear wizened writers tell about how they loved early Google Docs (before they added whatever feature they didn't use and which could be turned off, but what still was ideologically too much). [1]: http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/images/Vinge_screenshot.png http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/images/Vinge_s...