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To give an opposite opinion form the same time period. I found WordStar much more difficult to come to grips with than WordPerfect. WordPerfect 4.2 with a XT layout keyboard is by far my favorite word processor experience to date.
I could never get to grips with WP's use of function keys. In fact, I hate all software that uses function keys.
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I use JOE as my programming (and general purpose) editor, which is modeled after WordStar in a lot of ways. Once, I happened upon a WordStar installation and was able to use it just fine, because I already knew the concepts (I think the command prefix isn't ^K though, so it felt a bit off?)
Joe (or jstar) is my go to console editor.
Silly me. I read that as Worldstar
I wish there was a console version of this. Linux really lacks a good writing app for console. All the text editors don't do on-the-fly word-wrapping (while not inserting a real line ending). Makes sense for a text editor that's normally used for config files and programming, but I would really want something more like a word processor. There's wordgrinder but it's not great for this, it has a proprietary format so I…
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Are you asking the author(s) of a project that emulates a decades-old word processor so that people don't have to learn to use a newer word processor to learn to use a newer code hosting platform? I guess this project is the very embodiment of "force of habit"...
MS-DOS 1.25 (1983) is on Github https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
Asking for a friend.
JOE (Joe's Own Editor) has WordStar-inspired key bindings. I used that just a very little bit thirty years ago.
I'd love to see some word processors pop up that are fundamentally different again.
After I'm happy with the first draft, I'll drop the text into google docs for a second set of eyes on spelling and grammar (I find the google docs grammar check superior to any other word processor).
If you look for an odd program try this: https://www.papyrusauthor.com/
Made for professional writes. Last time I tried it, I must say, it was fast as f.. (Installed with WIne under Linux)
Why host the project on SourceForge? Just force of habit? Other code forges don't look better enough to justify the effort of moving? Or are there actively good things about SourceForge these days?
Sourceforge is one of the few left that support Mercurial, which I use.
But feel free to use SourceForge - fine by me. I just wish SF would hide unused stuff from the project page. The new UI is a ton better, but as an example, this project still has 'wiki' and 'git' links, even though they're both empty.