Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Even what most people call insert 'mode' is a command that takes an optional repeat count: try 20i -<escape> to get a dashed line. Maybe being old enough to have used keyboards without arrows or function keys helps, though...
Sorry, I grew with DR-DOS and the Wordstar hotkeys. ie Ctrl-K-B Ctrl-K-K (mark text block). It's engraved in my brain cells.
Gag. I loathed Wordstar. The first word processor I ever voluntarily used, and still prefer to Dirt, er, Word, was WordPerfect 5. That was *useable*.*
That's why I use Joe... or "pico" back in the days of Caldera OpenLinux 2.3...
<alt.religion.editors> vi. emacs is a great (I suppose) windowing operating system masquerading as a text editor. </alt.religion.editors>
Wonder if I could configure the *best* text editor ever to run under wine: brief.
mark
* My old criteria for evaluating a word processor: since the primary function of a word processor is to replace a typewriter, if I couldn't sit down and write and print out a letter inside of 5 min, then its interface and bells & whistles have overwhelmed its primary function.
Btw, in ->'95<-, in a review of word processors, PC Mag noted that 90% of the users, *then*, never used more than 10% of the capabilities, and of the remaining 10%, they used some of them no more than 10% of the time.
But we need 100M+ word processors....