Tim Wegner wrote:

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And, sorry, it's not for me. I'm a vi guy.

So am I, but I'll have you know that many tens of thousands of lines of Fractint's code were typed in using Wordstar under DOS :-)

Ah, an old, old friend! WordStar was my first serious editor, too! My folks made me take a typing course, so the "hands-in-home-position" paradigm of WordStar was a joy for me. I used WordPerfect a lot, too (my cousin was really into it, and it was used in my company as well), but that was all Function keys. I later found the "best" MS-DOS editor: QEdit. Multiple split screens, macros, user-configurable....it was my primary editor for many, many years (didn't have to remember to "Save As Text").

I even had to write a little utility to strip out the ^Z at the bottom oif each file I edited ...

You know, I think I wrote one of those, too!

I'm not sure about Jonathan, but if memory serves Bert Tyler used Wordstar also. I have never found another editor that does column block operations as well as Wordstar.

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