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Originally Posted by CRussel
I used it starting in 1986. I used it in "Wordstar Mode" where it mimicked the keystrokes of one of the other two popular word processing programs of the time, Wordstar. Without costing Wordstar $$. I still use many of the same key combinations (Ctrl-K-this, Ctrl-K-that, CtrlQ-this, etc.)
Text editing, however, is done entirely using my preferred Vi clone - gVim.
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I learned WordStar back in the days when it was the second text editor you learned on a PC, because what you liked might not be available on the machine you had to use but WS probably was. I stayed fluent because many subsequent editors either used WS key assignments or could be told to. I had Gnu Emacs customized to use WS key assignments to avoid retraining my fingers.
I have gVim here, but under Windows normally use
Notepad2-mod, a fork of Florian Balmer's open source
Notepad2. Notepad2 uses Neil Hodgson's
Scintilla edit control, which provides syntax highlighting and code folding. It can be set via a registry hack to replace built-in Notepad. It invokes instantly, and provides as much power as I normally need.
At the moment, I'm poking at Mitchell Foicica's
TextAdept, intended to be a minimalist and highly extensible editor. It's cross-platform, and available for Windows, Linux, and OS/X. TextAdept uses less than 2,000 lines of C for the framework, and uses the Scintilla edit control. It also uses the
Lua script language, designed for embedding in other programs, and the editor functions are implemented in about 4,000 lines of Lua. You can modify the Lua code used from within TextAdept (and Mitchell is explicit that you
can shoot yourself in both feet.
)
There's even a third-party package to
make TextAdept more like Vi 
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Dennis