Found my favorite DOS editor

Mike Katz bitwiz at 12bitsbest.com
Tue Sep 28 18:46:55 CDT 2021


Control-C, Control-X & Control-P for copy, cut and paste in Windows 11 
dates back to Wordstar on 8-Bit CPM systems in the 80s.

On 9/28/2021 6:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 9/28/21 3:49 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Yes.  There is an elisp package called EVIL (Extensible VI Layer) that
>> emulates VI in EMACS.
>
> I confess to having Wordstar so thoroughly burned into my reflexes that
> I still use joe under linux.
>
> Let's not forget MINCE, either.   Ran on 8-bit x80 systems, emacs subset
> with a nested acronym of a name.
>
> --Chuck
>



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