[TUHS] Screen editors

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Tue Jan 21 02:20:08 AEST 2020


On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:07:01AM -0500, Toby Thain wrote:
> 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...

My memory fu is weak but there was a small editor for CP/M that I liked
a lot.  Can't remember what it was called but I stole some keybindings 
from it:

map # :.,$		# does from here to the bottom
map @ :1,.		@ does from top to here

Anyone remember that?


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