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From: horker@milton.u.washington.edu (Chris Finnly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Wordstar-like editor wanted
Message-ID: <1991May27.203237.26892@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 27 May 91 20:32:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: milton.1991May27.203237.26892
References: <1991May25.111854.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
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In article <1991May25.111854.1@cc.helsinki.fi> teittinen@cc.helsinki.fi (Marko Teittinen) writes:
>
>I am currently developing some applications on OS/2 and I'd like to find
>an editor that used Wordstar-like commands. I know Epsilon, uEmacs and
>millions of other editors can be configured to do it, but I'd like to
>find this feature ready. And yes, I know Epsilon et al. offer many nice
>features, but I don't want to learn a new keyboard command lay-out as I
>use TC++ (in DOS, of course) often. So could some one tell me where I
>can ftp a "wordstar-compatible" OS/2 editor? And what are the best
>ftp-sites to find OS/2 programs?
>

I don't know where you could ftp a copy from, but my choice for an os/2 editor e
is QEdit or ME.  Both are very good.  I don't know about ME, but Qedit has
word-star like commands and very powerful macro capabilities.