Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac

Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by flomo on Monday August 03, 2020 @03:30AM (#24035024)

For a TUI program Wordstar seemed much more accessible than WordPerfect. But I guess WP was more aimed at professional secretaries and typists, and people with offbrand printers.

When I was first messing around with Linux, I was (pleasantly) surprised when a WordStar clone popped-up instead of vi. Googling says it was called joe editor.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by morganvachon on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:48AM (#24036184)

> joe editor

JOE is one of the most versatile TUI editors out there. It can emulate not only Wordstar, but Pico/nano, and Emacs. It has full UTF-8 support and can display pretty much any character in any written language.

These days I just use nano for simple, quick command line editing, but my writing machine (2000 era Dell Latitude CPx with Slackware) has JOE for long-form writing in Wordstar mode. Like the article author there's no need for internet or other distractions, just boot to terminal, log in, open JOE, and start writing on the fantastic keyboard.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by vijucat on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:04AM (#24037197)

Woah, it's just 108k on Cygwin. Amazing.

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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by mixmastamyk on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:27PM (#24044711)

I left nano behind when micro became mature. Now it is in the Ubuntu repos.

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