That's funny. I rember when my dad upgraded from an electronic typewriter
to a pre-8086 NEC pc running word star.
It didn't have a hard drive, so you had to put in the spell-check
floppies, and then wait 1/2 an hour for it to run.
-Lkb
On 6 Aug 2001, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Lorin" == Lorin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Lorin> just alias vi='/bin/vim-minimal' and you can use the plain
> Lorin> ole vi that we all know and love.
>
> Or 'alias vi emacs' then M-x vi-mode
>
> Actually, speaking of primitive, my advisor actually uses *Word Star*.
> He is probably the only person on the planet who runs several linux
> and solaris boxes and still uses wordstar (and doesn't know public ftp
> or how to use a browser). For you youngin's, Word Star is the word
> processor that predated Word Perfect.
>
> For a 5-6 years, when he worked under SunOS 4 he used aprimitive text
> editor called textedit, I think. When he migrated to linux he was in
> need of a suitably primitive text editor so I got him to use emacs.
> Here is the .emacs I created for him:
>
> (setq default-major-mode 'wordstar-mode)
> (setq-default transient-mark-mode t)
> (setq-default line-number-mode t)
>
> ;; Save workspace between visits
> (desktop-load-default)
> (desktop-read)
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.tex$" . wordstar-mode) auto-mode-alist))
> (switch-to-buffer "temp")
>
> This was very painful for me, like taking a Ferrari, ripping out the
> engine, and replacing it with that of a VW microbus. Or worse.
>
> JDH
>
>
