On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:33:45PM -0400, trev.saunders at gmail.com wrote: > I'm confused, vim is very touch typest friendly, you basically don't > ever have to move your hands off the home row :) btw joe claims to do > this when invoked as jstar. Yes, I have joe installed, but it has that annoying pico, cursors left to the previous line instead of stopping at column 1 jazz. If I'd wanted to cursor to the line above, I'd have pressed cursor up. I'm always having to double-check my cursor position to make sure I'm editting the right line in nano. You still have to hit the escape key in vi/vim to save. set modes, change edit buffers, etc., where saving a file in WordStar is a simple Ctrl+KS (or was it Ctrl+QS...I forget, it's been so long). Your hands don't even have to leave the home row to cursor around. Anyway, WordStar was one of the first editors I ever used, and I grew to love the old fossil, back in my old 80186 days. It's too bad there isn't a better port than jstar. It would insert the troff dot commands for you, and most of HTML is based on the old troff commands. A simple search and replace would easily convert a document to HTML. If I didn't think WordStar was writtne in 8086 assembly, I'd be nagging MicroPro to release the old sourcecode to GPL (if they even still exist). Michael -- Linux User: 177869 Powered by Intel
