George R.R. Martin Writes Everything in WordStar 4.0 on a DOS Machine (2014)

Re:George R.R. Martin Writes Everything in WordStar 4.0 on a... by wombatmobile on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:47AM (#26695455)

I'm tempted to revert to WordStar myself, and could even live with 80 columns, but 25 lines is a deal breaker.

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Re:George R.R. Martin Writes Everything in WordStar 4.0 on a... by technofiend on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:56AM (#26698321)

Banging out quick text in vi is pretty painless and fmt is your friend to get the line fill right. If I'm in a hurry :1,$!fmt -w 75 means not even leaving the editor.

Anecdotally back when Wordstar was in its heyday people used to ape the name for their products. One of the sales guys I worked with could never stop laughing about a farm management app called Dirtstar.

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Re:George R.R. Martin Writes Everything in WordStar 4.0 on a... by viraptor on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:52AM (#26695476)

Why not any one of the new editors which are very basic and can handle any terminal size? Or wordtsar?

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