14 Jan
2003
14 Jan
'03
9:24 a.m.
On 14-Jan-2003 Live Wire wrote:
I program for a living. My editor is the program I probably use the most
often. I started writing code in wordstar, then in norton's editor (or
something), then quickedit, then tse32. These all use the worstar binding
as a base, each having slight variations. When I moved to Linux, I tried
wordstar bindings for emacs (slow!), I tried learning vi (modal!), but when
I found joe I was in heaven.
After all these year, I don't think I could be as productive with another
editor. It's not that joe is a stunning editor (it lacks some features
that I loved in quickedit/tse32), but I don't want to "waste" time
learning to do something (edit code) that I can already do very well.
-Philip
infamous
"This page intentionally left blank" page. What's up with
that??
I have a stack of these pages ;)
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...