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From: wxh@alpha.lanl.gov (Billy Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Wanted: WordStar-like editor
Message-ID: <905@alpha.lanl.gov>
Date: 14 Jun 89 06:52:18 GMT
References: <26464@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <2167@trantor.harris-atd.com> <4095@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <4095@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley) writes:
> Having a WordStar clone on Unix would make it much easier for
> novices to edit files, and I'm sure it would be an instant hit
> 
> Writing a simple WordStar clone might be great project for
> someone who wants to be famous pretty fast :-).
> 

I believe a WS look-alike could "easily" be written in the emacs programming
language.  I think a not-too-old article by Jerry Pournelle in Byte said
something about a commercial version of emacs with a WS clone user-interface
available.  The emacs programming language is powerful enough to emulate
probably almost any other editor.  I'll try to find which issue of Byte it
was.  Meanwhile, perhaps someone who reads the emacs netnews regularly could
ask about a WS interface in that newsgroup and get back to us here.

Billy Harvey            wxh@a.lanl.gov