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Originally Posted by rcentros
I don't WordStar limiting. Actually I see it the opposite way. A text screen (without GUI elements) makes it easier for me to concentrate on writing.
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I was having a dig at the fact that the navigation keystrokes were designed to support old keyboards without navigation keys - as if living with outdated limitations was a good recommendation. (Of course, that feature could be handy again now with compact portable keyboards, so it's not necessarily a bad thing either - but is putting up with that limitation for decades really worth it?)
As for minimal screen interface, WordStar was not alone here. Even WordPerfect for DOS had what, a single menu line at the top and a single status line at the bottom and happily supported 50 line mode. Several other plain text editors had minimal interfaces too.
Let's face it, it's what you program into your fingers that counts. My fingers rejected WordStar but accepted WordPerfect and a myriad other programs that failed to follow WordStar's lead. (I admit the WP choice made it something of a PITA when WordPerfect was taken over by Novell and then Corel and slowly became unusable. But, I adapted.)