Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

On Wed, 21 May 2025 11:47:16 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2025-05-21 04:55, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 20 May 2025 22:51:59 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
 

I never use vi, I hate it. I know the basics, that's it.

 
On Linux machines vi is usually an alias for vim. Real vi does leave
something to be desired.
 
Once you get used to it, vim is light years ahead of any editor MS came
up with. Borland bought Brief and killed it but it too was a lot better
than MS efforts. Hell, Wordstar was better and it wasn't even a
programming editor.

 
Long ago, Borland editors used the WordStar keyboard set. I loved it. I
don't know if the current Borland IDEs still use it.

I liked the Borland C++ IDE and OWL better than MFC but the gorilla won.
iirc you could select the Brief bindings on the editor but it wasn't the
full Brief editor. I'd used Wordstar on CP/M so I stayed with those.

It's been a long time but iirc ^C, ^V, and others that are now standard
were used. I don't know if they originated in Wordstar.