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Originally Posted by darryl
Word Perfect used to be the standard for legal typists. They almost invariably hated shifting to more modern word processors because of the use of the mouse. Old Dos word processors did have a learning curve, but once they mastered it they could work very quickly without taking their fingers off the keyboard. Modern Word Processors actually slowed them down! Certainly this was the complaint of many, though resistance to chqnge probably also played a big part.
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I never liked WordPerfect much — mostly because it depended on the Function Keys. WordStar kept you hands on the in the "home row." But either was much faster than a WYSIWYG word processor.
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Originally Posted by darryl
If you are using Linux you can try out the feel of Wordstar. Install the "Joe" editor and run it from a shell with the command jstar. Just remember it is not wysiwg. If you learn or already know it is not a bad text editor.
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Jstar is what I use for almost all my initial writing. I've got small shell scripts for different types of files. For example, I hit F12 to open Quake (a terminal) and then "jn
filename" opens (or creates) a file in Jstar in my notes sub-directory. (There's four or five other sub-directories, with different shell scripts.) The one disadvantage of of Jstar, is that it doesn't do "soft" word wrapping for importing text into a word processor. There's a work-around, but it would be nicer if this feature was implemented.