Date   : Wed, 08 Jul 1992 14:59:14 GMT
From   : taco!escott@gatech.edu (Erik Scott)
Subject: Re: Wordstar clone

In article <1992Jul7.230449.15466@wyvern.twuug.com>, alpha@wyvern.twuug.com
(Joe Wright) writes:

|> Like many of you, I assume, I have been using Wordstar in non-document
|> mode as my editor-of-choice for many years.  I now use Wordstar 4.0
|> (for CP/M) and love it.  

I'm a dedicated 3.3 fan.  Probably because I never got 4.0 :-)

|> But I have a problem.  I have accounts on a number of Unix systems
|> and have occasion to edit program files there.  On Unix, you have vi
|> and maybe emacs.  I hate vi and don't know emacs.  Is there an editor
|> (in C) which works something like Wordstar's non-document mode?
|> 
|> Where can I get it?

well, emacs isn't just an editor: It's a Way of Life.  You can do anything 
with it, even, presumably, make it look like wordstar.  A quick search with
WAIS through back articles in the comp.archives, err, "archives", yeilds:


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From comp.archives Fri Apr 12 08:20:01 EDT 1991
Newsgroups: comp.archives
From: markh@squirrel.LABS.TEK.COM (Mark C. Henderson)
Subject: [editors] Re: WordStar emulation mode in Emacs, WordStar-like
editor in Unix
Reply-To: markh@squirrel.LABS.TEK.COM (Mark C. Henderson)
Organization: Computer Research Laboratory, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton OR