Subj : Re: Wordstar 7.0 Archive
To   : Mortar M.
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon May 05 2025 08:29:50

-=> Mortar M. wrote to Ben Collver <=-

 BC> ...my novels were written with WordStar...

 MM> Loved WS, at least the DOS version.  Most of us at work
 MM> used it, but there were the WordPerfect devotees as well.

 I never used Wordstar, except for a short stint under CP/M.

 When I started BBSing, I was taking computer science classes at the
 time, and looked at a lot of text editors. Qedit was nice, fast, and
 worked for text editing and code nicely. It came with a couple of key
 bindings, but defaulted to Wordstar.

 VDE was a more word-processor-like editor with on-screen help like
 Wordstar and the same command set.

 Between those two, the key bindings are burned into my mind. Fast
 forward to present day, and I'm entering this message in TSE, a Windows
 32-bit console text editor from the makers of Qedit. Same bindings,
 plus a menu bar at the top.

 
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