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.
>
> On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 8:55 AM Gerald Brandt <gbr@majentis.com
> <mailto:gbr@majentis.com>> wrote:
>
>     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!
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>>     You're welcome :-)
>>     -Adam
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