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His explanation of why WordStar is so good (I guess I agree with him, never used WS), reads as if you say to a programmer at gunpoint: Drink these five bottles
by Torwald 5y ago
His explanation of why WordStar is so good (I guess I agree with him, never used WS), reads as if you say to a programmer at gunpoint: Drink these five bottles of whisky first and then re-implement Emacs Org-Mode on a CP/M machine.
The ctrl key and block commands are almost Emacs and the duble periods are the Org-Mode markup.
- filmgirlcw 5y agoYeah, it’s really interesting to look at how people created interfaces and features before the mouse and GUI became mainstream (and to be clear, I’m not trying to get into an argument about whether a keyboard driven UX is better than a mouse-keyboard UX, generally I agree that for most people spending a ton of time with text, a keyboard-driven UX is going to be more efficient — but the GUI is a very different/separate thing). Some of the ideas were good, some not so much. But it’s really interesting to see how people compensated for stuff like the lack of context menus and selections and comments and whatnot.
- pwillia7 5y agoYeah I was going to say -- just wait until this guy hears about org mode