Re: wordstar on unix

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From: Hank Roberts
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:32

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kasajian@netcom.com (Kenneth Kasajian) writes:

>I don't like vi or emacs.  Is there a wordstar compatible editor
>anywhere on unix?  does anyone have the source code to simple full
>screen editor that's easy to use like wordstar?  The reason I bring
>up wordstar is not because it's world's greatest editor, but because
>it prompts you as you do your work and it works with a minimum keyset..
>that is, it can work off of a terminal (like on cp/m).

The 'Joe' editor looks a lot like WordStar and shares some (but not all)
of the key commands.

(If anyone knows how to make Joe a WS clone so my fingers don't have to
learn yet another wp, I'd sure like to know)

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