WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals

Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by teruakohatu on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:52AM (#35535893)

After reading the FAQ and Tips and Tricks, I can only imagine how amazing a modern terminal WordPerfect clone with Vim keybindings would be. I write a lot of pandoc markdown documents, vim and vscode are fine, but they are text editors not word processors.

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Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by timellis-smith on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:00AM (#35535934)

WordPerfect 6 for Dos was my favourite word processor. Vim keybindings would make WP pretty incredible.

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Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by xattt on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:15AM (#35536893)

Don’t forget a buckling spring keyboard for that ultimate bare metal experience.

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Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by pedrow on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:49AM (#35538809)

Also you need a template to drop over the function keys. How would that work on a modern keyboard!?

https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1604126863067008/UI__3_WordPer...

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Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by DevOfNull on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:37AM (#35536633)

I don't use it personally, but from what I hear this is exactly the use case Emacs was made for.

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Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by Apfel on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:58AM (#35537259)

Neovim with the markdown preview plugin does a really really neat job if you haven't tried it.

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Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals by theli0nheart on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:44AM (#35539523)

I began a complete clone about a year ago, but paused work when I decided to start a startup :)

It was mainly just a technical exercise, but comments like yours make me think that people would actually use it.

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