DOS 1.0

From: liste_at_artware.qc.ca <(liste_at_artware.qc.ca)>
Date: Tue Jan 14 17:24:22 2003

On 14-Jan-2003 Live Wire wrote:
>> 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...

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
Received on Tue Jan 14 2003 - 17:24:22 GMT

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