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From: jkl@csli.Stanford.EDU (John Kallen)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: WordStar-like editor
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Date: 13 Jun 89 01:46:25 GMT
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In article <4893@uoregon.uoregon.edu> lth@drizzle.UUCP (Lars Thomas Hansen) writes:
>If you program under CP/M you might not find EMACS or its relatives
>available to you. Otherwise, I'd rather suggest you switch editors than
>try to look for an (elusive) WS-clone.

I recall working on a CP/M system about 6 years ago and being
introduced to a new editor called Star Edit. As I was used to
WordStar, I never really liked the switch over to the new control
keys, and never used it for any serious editing. Only after another 3
years, after being exposed to Emacs in college, did I realize what
this editor was: an Emacs clone.  It had even the same tutorial file,
with all the occurences of "Emacs" M-x replace-string'ed with "Star
Edit".

Now I use Epsilon (Emacs clone) in MS-DOS. I'm not switching back to
slow, non-multiple-file-handling WordStar again -- "Give me Emacs or
give me death" :-)

John.
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