I remember one of my favourite text editors of all time was a freeware/shareware/well-I-didnt-pay-for-it-anyway WordStar-inspired thing that ran under CP/M. I still remember most of the control codes started with ^K. ^K^E did... something... justified the paragraph or something? It also supported some of the roff(1)-style dot codes that IIRC WordStar stole^H^H^H^H^H used for inspiration. But after all this time, damned if I can remember the name of the editor!
I do prefer vi(1), but even to this day there are things vi can't do that that editor could. -Adam
EDIT: looks like it might have been Eric Meyer's VDE. The "About" page (https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home/about-vde) lines up pretty well with my memory. Or possibly ZDE, which was the continuation of VDE once VDE jumped to MS-DOS.
________________________________ From: Roundtable roundtable-bounces@muug.ca on behalf of Scott Toderash scott@100percenthelpdesk.com Sent: May 10, 2023 13:29 To: Continuation of Round Table discussion roundtable@muug.ca Subject: Re: [RndTbl] WordTsar – A Wordstar clone
Guys will literally write their own editor rather than learning how to exit VI.
:wq
But seriously, I'm tempted to try it, if only to realize how much I've forgotten about WordStar. Or maybe it just comes back.
On 2023-05-10 09:08, Chris Audet wrote:
Neat! I will try it.
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Coded by a single person here in Winnipeg. Me. It's a fun project. Gerald On 2023-05-10 08:31, Adam Thompson wrote:http://wordtsar.ca/ <http://wordtsar.ca/> - WordStar for the 21st Century! You're welcome :-) -Adam Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca <mailto:Roundtable@muug.ca> https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable <https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable>_______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca <mailto:Roundtable@muug.ca> https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable <https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable>
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