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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I use LibreOffice now as well on mac
because Word on mac just won't export a tab-delimited file
correctly for Linux - at least not easily.<br>
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I assisted a business English teacher at a secretarial school for
a while back in the days of WordStar. One of my tasks was keeping
the various software up to date. Students were required to produce
documents from WordStar as well as from the dedicated DisplayWrite
machines. (The DW machines there were the models that had
portrait monitors.) There was also a dedicated Wang machine that
sat in the corner that no one used.<br>
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On 9/17/19 7:57 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Tue, Sep 17, 2019, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">WordStar was a minor nightmare. It's the only editor I can think of that
used more control keys than EMACS. :)
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I knew how to use all of them at one point. If there was a word processor
on the market, I was trained on it. Even Word/36 on System/36, and that's
really bloody obscure (and yet, I had a gig doing just that for a while).
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I never used WordStar, but then I never ran a CP/M machine either.
The only word processor I knew well was Scripsit, mostly because
I had to demonstrate it to potential customers. I use LibreOffice
now, but don't consider myself really proficient with it. Most
of the documentaton I've written as been written in the vi editor
for groff or Docbook. I'm answering this message in mutt with vi.
I've been using vi since 1982 or so, and it's second nature to my
fingers. I write a lot of python scripts, and my code would
drive a Pythonista nuts as I use commented curly braces around
blocks of code so I can use the vi '%' key to find matching
braces.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Those days are gone. Use it or lose it, and I haven't needed anything like
that in years.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">But yeah, WordStar was... I don't know many who -liked- WordStar. It
wasn't as bad as some made out, but it was needlessly taxing on the human
memory. EMACS is much the same, although I liked EMACS a lot when I was
using it. My CLI is still EMACS bindings; I'll willingly use a modal CLI
over my dead body.
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Bill
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