> WordPerfect was like vi: forbidding entry point, difficult key bindings, and a joy to use once you got it. Maybe in that way, but I think it's misleading to

> WordPerfect was like vi: forbidding entry point, difficult key bindings, and a joy to use once you got it. Maybe in that way, but I think it's misleading to say a every keyboard-based non-GUI editor is essentially similar. Vi's appeal is the muscle memory of complex commands, because of the moded keyboard - one mode being character insert, the other being commands. Didn't WP use function keys + accelerator keys? That's almost the opposite of Vi's efficiency and muscle-memory.