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Originally Posted by rcentros
Yep. And WordStar is a great word processor -- although I liked WordStar 5.5 instead of 4.0. I did more writing with WordStar than I've ever done since. It was not just the screen, it was the keystrokes (which are still hard-wired into my fingers). It kept your fingers on the Home Keys, instead of having to search for the Function Keys, etc. I still run WordStar (now 7) in DosBox under Linux sometimes -- but I don't write much anymore.
I also use the Joe variant -- Jstar for most of my editing in Linux.
Martin is not alone in using WordStar in the SF writing world -- Robert J. Sawyer and several others also use WordStar.
http://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm |
Thanks for posting the article. I found it a very interesting read and it backed up my own feelings about the structure of Wordstar's commands. Related to this, another thing that was great about Wordstar were the help levels. You could adjust them to appear when you need it, and not when you don't. I usually worked at Help Level 2 (no primary menus, but the secondary menus would appear if you waited too long to complete the command).