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From: filbo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Wanted: WordStar-like editor
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Date: 6 Jun 89 03:52:29 GMT
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Reply-To: filbo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Bela Lubkin)
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Disclaimer: I >am< R Pentomino.  I don't speak for any other organization.

I'm sure I'll be roundly flamed for wanting to use the "evil" editor WordStar,
but I find it quite efficient and it is ingrained into my fingers.  VI drives
me insane; EMACS is too slow and bulky to use on any of the systems I use.
What I want is a >simple< WordStar "clone" -- something akin to WordStar
version 3.3, or the editors found in Borland products such as SideKick and
Turbo Pascal.  (Ideal would be a port of Kim Kokkonen's "TPE", but moving it
from Turbo Pascal/MS-DOS to C/UNIX does not sound like an appealing project
(!)).  I realize that there are configurable editors out there; what I want
is both the keystrokes >and< the behavior of WordStar.  I've attempted to
configure editors to my preferences in the past, and the results are never
very good unless the underlying assumptions are the same.

The systems on which I'd like to run it are: a Sun 3/50 with SunOS 4.0; a 386
box running XENIX 2.3, soon 3.2; an ISI (I believe) running 4.2BSD.  If you
know of an appropriate program, please mail me an FTP address, archive server
location, or whatever.  If you are also looking for such a program, MAIL me
("r" command in rn) rather than posting, and I will let you know of anything
I find.  Remember, nobody cares but us WS weirdos.  ;-}

  * *     Bela Lubkin    filbo@ssyx.ucsc.edu  (preferred)
    * *        @         filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us
    *     R Pentomino    Filbo @ Pyrzqxgl, (408) 476-4633