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- From: cwong@cs.cornell.edu (Christopher Yoong-Meng Wong)
- Subject: Re: What do you want in a simple editor?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.184309.28261@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- References: <861@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> <mxynjgh.messina@netcom.com> <862@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:43:09 GMT
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- In article <862@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard) writes:
- >messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >
- >>>This is why for example I choose to implement wordstar commands.
- >
- >>Quite honestly - how many DOS users know Wordstar commands? Only those
- >>who have been using PCs when Wordstar was still alive, that is, a
- >>negligable minority.
- >
- >Well... I am amongst that minority :-)
- >In fact editors like borland turboXXX used wordstar commands.
- >Even Qedit uses wordstart command (although you can do most of it with pull
- >down menus). I thought that wordstar commands were pretty standard amongst
- >ms/dos users.
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- IMHO, the Wordstar command set will outlive Wordstar itself. There does not
- seem to be any other contendor to the title of "editor key command standard".
- A look around my machine is all I need: DR Dos's editor, Borland's Turbo C++,
- some freeware editors (VDE and TPE) and even the editor in my telecommunication
- program, use the Wordstar commands. It seems that every time someone writes
- an editor and needs an interface without pull-down menus etc, the Wordstar
- command set is picked. Just look at the index to files in Simtel20's
- pd1:<msdos.editor> archive.
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- If you do not use Wordstar commands, what other alternative is there?
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- Do let us know when we can expect this "easy editor".
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- Chris
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