Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!ethz!neptune!inf.ethz.ch!wyle From: wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Wordstar-like editor for Unix Message-ID: <8732@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Date: 20 Sep 90 07:42:10 GMT References: <1299@infko.UUCP> Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch Reply-To: wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) Organization: Departement Informatik, ETH, Zurich Lines: 37 In nickel@w104zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de claims: >ever made a wordstar-configuration for the Emacs-editor, or who is able to >simulate this kind of editor by using vi ??? > >I can't imagine this is possible with vi. The only problems have to do with mapping stuff like control S. Otherwise, it's a pretty simple map macro set. map ^A ^V^[hi map ^D ^V^[li etc. You stay in insert mode and do cursor movement with the wordstar keys. Mapping the menu stuff ^Q and ^K is harder but do-able. >But there is a Wordstar emulation for Unipress (Gosling) Emacs. On the All of these "great" emulation packages for the different emacsen have the same untenable problems: 1) emacs is still underneath the emulation. You still need control-meta-alt-shift-compose-diamond-clover-cokebottle-V to give commands. If you accidentily type control-meta-alt-shift-compose-diamond-clover-pepsibottle-V you are blasted into some bizare emacs twilight zone where it forked three times, and is loading 12 Gigabytes of hypertext help in the background. When you search for text, the cursor jumps around while you type. When you save a file, a command line appears. Etc. Emacs is still there. You are *not* in wordstar. 2) Since it's emacs, you have to wait a few years til it's your turn to type at it. If you are running on a cray-2 and ram disk, response time approaches vi.