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From: markh@squirrel.LABS.TEK.COM (Mark C. Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: WordStar emulation mode in Emacs, WordStar-like editor in Unix
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Date: 8 Apr 91 21:40:31 GMT
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In article <31761@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
->
->I'm involved in getting a bunch of PC users to use a bunch of
->Suns.  I know for fact that it's possible for write a script
->which will make emacs emulate WordStar.
->
->The question: has someone written something like this?  More
->generally, is there a sugar-coated WordStar-like editor publicly
->available on Unix?

Check out the Emacs-lisp anonymous ftp archive at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.
The file ~ftp/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/misc/wordstar.el.Z contains
a wordstar emulation for GNU Emacs.


Mark

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