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Amassing and organizing ideas is different than writing and benefits from a different tool. I find mindmapping fun.
I use freeplane https://www.freeplane.org.
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The venerable joe editor ( https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io ) is apparently very comfortable for Wordstar users. I used it for a few years in college before I could afford enough RAM to run emacs and although I never actually used Wordstar myself and cant compare it that way, I really liked using joe and can still remember a lot of the keybindings 20+ years later.
It lacks word wrapping tho.
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Where can I get that plugin?
https://gitlab.com/tungware/geezeredit
> I need to build it, so I can compile my Wordstar-flavored editor plugin for QtCreator (maybe I'm giving away my age here).[0]
:)
[0] https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/qt-creator/2014-May/0...
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It's still in Alpha and coded by one guy (me). Give it time...
Then I'll just take the opportunity to say thank you. I'm personally very happy with VIM and Markdown, but I know a lot of people loved Wordstar and I fear for the day when VIM will be where Wordstar is now.
Though vi has a good track record, and hopefully will be with is for a long time still.
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https://gitlab.com/tungware/geezeredit
JFTR, few hours ago I googled "Qt+WordStar plugin" and found only two mentions of it (both seems like from you) - its curious that Google not show your GitLab repo is search results.[0,1] > I need to build it, so I can compile my Wordstar-flavored editor plugin for QtCreator (maybe I'm giving away my age here). [0] :) [0] https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/qt-creator/2014-May/0... [1] https://forum.qt.io/post/370…
G.R.R. Martin uses Wordstar on a DOS machine: https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin...
If he’s using antique hardware, then he’s being silly. That’s like racing a 1960s-era car: It’s fun and nostalgic as long as nothing goes wrong and you never have a crash.
"WordStar is a word processor application for microcomputers. It dominated the market in the early and mid-1980s, succeeding the market leader Electric Pencil. It was published by MicroPro International, originally written for the CP/M-80 operating system, and later written also for MS-DOS and other 16-bit PC OSes. Seymour I. Rubinstein was the principal owner of the company, and Rob Barnaby was the sole author of th…
G.R.R. Martin uses Wordstar on a DOS machine: https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin...
If it’s a DOS VM running on vaguely modern hardware and it has a script to encrypt and back up the VM image periodically, then that’s fine. If he’s using antique hardware, then he’s being silly. That’s like racing a 1960s-era car: It’s fun and nostalgic as long as nothing goes wrong and you never have a crash.
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It lacks word wrapping tho.
^TW .. By default it word wraps files, so editing source files with long lines gets a bit annoying, I know one can save the default options, but I've used this shortcut a lot of times that I know it by heart.
What I'd prefer is an editor that wraps visually but only inserts line endings at the end of a paragraph (when enter is actually pressed).
Robert j. Sawyer is also a prominent wordstar diehard who ought to be interested in this project :) he wrote an interesting rationale for his use of wordstar. https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm I wonder if learning proper use of vim motions would cover most of these use cases today :)
It was, for me, the turning point from reading what I now recognize to be mostly trash (primarily very early 'Star Wars' expanded universe books) to instead looking for things that had real impact. Books that made me think.
Not everything he's written has been as good, but I read whatever this man publishes- even blog posts about old text editors.