WordStar or the Like 1313

Not very. I used jed for a while several years ago and, despite (or, perhaps, because of) the fact that my spine knows WordStar, I've had to switch to vi clones for everything. I kept trying to do things that jed doesn't do (don't recall exactly what, but ^KN springs to mind).

On the other hand, I'm a WordStar 4 type person; I don't know how well jed does WordStar 2000, since I've never used it. I also had difficulty adjusting to 5.5 and went back to 4. And now 3.3 is annoying, for one reason: ^U. My spine got used to being able to delete a line here and undelete it over there; undelete is a feature 3.3 doesn't have.

IIRC, my primary difficulty with 5.5 was the new document format. Instead of just being an ASCII document with an occasional setting of bit 7, they started doing all kinds of whacky stuff, so it became difficult to do plain old text editing with WordStar. -- Roger Ivie -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS-P d- s:+++ a+ C++ UB--(++++) !P L- !E W++ N++ o-- K w O- M+ V+++ PS+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------