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Wordperfect had a god-awful learning curve. Especially if you were coming from Wordstar. However, back in the days of yore in Jamaica, pretty much every office
by eric4smith 5y ago
Wordperfect had a god-awful learning curve.
Especially if you were coming from Wordstar.
However, back in the days of yore in Jamaica, pretty much every office and law firm that had an IBM-PC had Wordperfect on it.
The secretaries (yes!) back then were goddesses in every key combination, formatting tricks and ways how to print the document exactly how they wanted it.
However, it's not even close to VIM for casual text editing.
Please, let it stay in the past where it belongs.
- reaperducer 5y agoLast stable release of WordPerfect was 38 days ago. Last stable release of VIM was 18 months ago. I'm not sure you're on the right side of the "let it stay in the past" argument.
- Liquid_Fire 5y ago> Last stable release of VIM was 18 months ago. I really doubt that. For example, the vim website lists the latest stable Windows build as v8.2.2824, released on 2 May, which is about 40 days old. Not that this is relevant to parent's point.
- reaperducer 5y agoNo need to doubt it. Check Wikipedia like I did.
- Liquid_Fire 5y agoI trust Vim's official website more than Wikipedia's interpretation of Vim's official website.
- lproven 5y agoHi. Article author here. Well, yes, this is somewhat true. I went through the pain of that learning curve in about 1989. But WordPerfect got a lot better after v5 when they introduced CUA-style drop-down menus. After that you could explore and slowly learn the program and just use the F-key combinations you most needed as accelerators. The Linux, Mac and Windows versions are perfectly standard GUI apps and are no harder to learn or use than any other GUI apps. They're also very fast on modern kit.