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From: h3x2@tank.uchicago.edu (andrew abrams shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Wanted: WordStar-like editor
Message-ID: <3809@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 89 17:30:26 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.

EMACS lives in CP/M under the name of Perfect Writer.  PW was sold as
a text processor with a bad formatter and passable spell checker, but
the editor, PW.COM, is an EMACS (really MINCE) that works qyu// quite
well.  It came wiuth all '83 Kaypro amchines (sorry -- the POC PC I'm
using oesn't emulate a VT100 well enough for corrections!) and is
very nice.  It has windowing and will handle up to 7 files at once.
Not bad, considering that wi  it will run in less than 50K oif RAM!