Silly me. I read that as Worldstar
Sadly, that comes up in any search for Wordstar or WordTsar.
I thought it was a new worldstarhiphop star destined to take over the game
WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
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Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#42Robert 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 :)
This rationale has completely convinced me that we will never see any new ASOIAF books from George Martin: even this very productive tool didn't help him finish new book in over a decade.
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#43Why 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?
Was not SourceForge bundling malware with open source project releases? That was the moment when I decided to drop SourceForge forever.
That changed long ago.
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#44Why 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?
Was not SourceForge bundling malware with open source project releases? That was the moment when I decided to drop SourceForge forever.
SourceForge was sold to a new owner a few years ago. All of that type of thing ended with the new ownership.
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#45The site mentions UTF-8 support. Can anyone take a screenshot of this so I could see if it's worth compiling: שלום, עולם! I'd be interested in ODT support as well, but there seems to be no mention on the site so I'm assuming that LibreOffice compatibility is right out.
If you're on twitter, search for the tag #wordtsar. There's some screen shots there.
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#46Why 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.
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#47WordStar was a really good programming editor, if you put into text mode. I wrote a lot of C and assembler code using it back in the 1980s. And it was a good word processor - much easier to get to grips with than WordPerfect, IMHO.
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.
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#48Why 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.
Isn't it easier to switch your version control than keep trying to run a project on SourceForge? I know I find it almost impossible to interact with a project hosted there.
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#49Seems nice and I will give it a try! Now a question: there is some obvious reason for using AGPL for a desktop GUI application (not a web app, a server, etc.)? AGPL would be my license to go in the later cases, so it would protect the project from being SaaSSed, but I could not find an advantage for graphical desktop apps yet.
I honestly can't remember why I chose the AGPL.
Lots of desktop programs are being turned into “VNC in your browser”-type things. Maybe that was it?
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#50On WordPerfect 6.2 you could switch between text mode UI, a DOS GUI and a Windows GUI.