[TUHS] Screen editors

Toby Thain toby at telegraphics.com.au
Tue Jan 21 02:07:01 AEST 2020


On 2020-01-20 9:59 AM, Jose R. Valverde via TUHS wrote:
> Talking of editors...
> 
> Once I learned Wordstar in old CP/M (before that it was mostly line
> editing), and then soon, other editors that supported the Wordstar key
> combinations, I got hooked on those. Joe is, to date, one of my
> favorites.

Speaking of WordStar, on CP/M there was also WordMaster, lighter weight,
better as a programmer's editor. Not sure who wrote it (but istr it came
from the WordStar people?) Adding here for completeness...

--T

> 
> On ancient UNIX, my editor of choice was 's' from Software Tools, 

...
> 
> Now, I still use 's' for ancient Unix emulators, 'joe' for the
> command line and 'xnedit' for X.
> 
> 				j
> 



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