> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:08:39AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > A growing 'I clicked on edit file' community, which I think is good for
> > the non technical end of things. Also the 'wordstar is king' community who
> > tend to run joe (or hardcore wstar folk as 'jstar').
>
> Naw. *Really* hardcore W* folks do
> cd /etc/joe
> mv joerc joerc.orig
> ln -s jstarrc joerc
>
> That way, you get the One True Set of Keybindings even if you slip up and
> invoke it as joe.
>
> (Hey, my fingers learned the W* keybindings well over 20 years ago, and they
> still make the most sense to me.)
>


I learned them on my Osborne 1, but these days I mostly use vim. I agree with
Alan, some of the Linux GUI editors are starting to look quite reasonable.

I spent enough time on OS/2 to wean me from WS bindings, and I still regard EPM
with some nostalgia. Especially since I was getting rather adept with E.




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