Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3419 mails)

[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> riccardo35@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> On Mon 09 Apr 2007 21:31, Doug McGarrett wrote:
>>   
>>> If you're new to Unix/Linux, and you don't actually _need_VI, then
>>> use something friendly like MC, or pico, or joe
>>>     
>>  - joe works fine for me . . . commands are similar to old 
>> word-processor -"Star-Writer" [if I recall]
>>   
> 
> The default keybindings are based loosely on "WordStar", which had a lot
> of clones that used the same commands.  (NewWord, Star-Writer, etc.) 
> There's a link to the same executable called 'jstar'.  If you run that
> one, it uses an alternate set of keybindings that are even more
> WordStar-like.  If you run it as 'jemacs' it uses an emacs-like set of
> keybindings.

Cool! Although it turns out it is 'jmacs', at least on my openSUSE 10.2.

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