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wordstar. If you are used to wordstar, joe is a blessing. There are a few greybeards and I mean that literally who swear on WordStar, GRRM most famous of them
by chx 6y ago
wordstar. If you are used to wordstar, joe is a blessing.
There are a few greybeards and I mean that literally who swear on WordStar, GRRM most famous of them but Robert J. Sawyer does too. So it's not unreasonable to think there are other, less famous people who still use it? and want to use an editor with the familiar keybindings.
Not me. I am completely up to date with software and my favorite word processor is WordPerfect 5.1.
- liotier 6y agoAlso, Turbo Pascal 3.x's editor took Wordstar shortcuts. Only years later high school me only learnt that those strange ctrl-k commands were archeological artifacts...
- chx 6y agoI am ashamed but I forgot the Turbo Pascal hotkeys :( it's been ... a long , long time since I opened TURBO.COM. Some of these do fall out of memory. I once knew the full 300+ opcode list for the Z80 so I could read machine code and disassemble it in my head, now I only remember C9 being RET :( I blame high school, it was too intensive and it crowded this out of my head.
- nobleach 6y agoI launched it a couple of years ago to show my kids what I did as a kid. I had forgotten pretty much every bit of Pascal (and I actually wrote Object Pascal at the end of the 90s!) But all that writeln stuff has left my brain.