18 Jan
2003
18 Jan
'03
1:42 p.m.
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Live Wire wrote:
I use 'joe' constantly myself. It's my day to day editor for editing
source code. I have used vi and vim somewhat, but I've honestly not yet
taken the time to learn vi as well as I should. I'm sure I must be missing
out by not using vi (well, thats what other software developers tell me),
but joe is fast and does what I need it to.
Somewhere, I have a complete Wordstar set for the Apple II. IIRC, I pulled
it and some other complete Apple II software from a trash pile back in
1998 or so.
-Toth
I do also
memember Wordstar and it's arcane command sequences. Those
commands persisted though, through a number of ordinary text editors
for programmers & such.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/
This is as close to wordstar and the WS CTRL-K-x command set I have
found. I used to use wordstar on a tiny portable computer with a 4 line
display to write asm for the amiga 500 and then dump it via the built in
modem. Joe is my favorite editor today, though I find myself living in
vi for the most part...