Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Dave Head wrote:
> 
> "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:JZo9a.25710$8f7.21367@nwrdny02.gnilink.net...
>> Would WordStar have survived if it was rewritten in Ada?
> 
> No.  The thing that killed WordStar is having to memorize all those keyboard
> key combinations.  Nobody wants to do that.  Its also why EMACS hasn't taken
> over the world's programming consoles except on those owned by people with
> really, really good memories.

Well, I actually went from Emacs to Vim which has a lot of key
combinations. For me it works. But then again I wouldn't teach my better
half to use Vim.

However, it makes me cringe when I see people using the mouse and menu
for Copy and Paste.

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