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I use Emacs.
While I can use Emacs and Vim (adequately enough) I really feel in love with Joe back when I was first learning Unix.
(I did have a phase where I used WordStar and VisiCalc long after they were surpassed by others.)
Is it better than
nano? It has all the standard Ctrl-based keyboard shortcuts these days, syntax highlighting etc.It’s still more feature rich than Nano, with things like macros and multi-file search/replace from the command line though since I started using it, Nano has taken up some of the slack.
I still have a soft spot for WordStar, to an extent where I wrote a WordStar-to-Markdown converter just to make WordTsar (no typo) even more useful for my daily usage. (Emacs doesn’t just cut it for letters.)
I was unfamiliar with wordtsar, that’s amazing.
Enjoy! The developer is happy about any bug reports and/or feature ideas, and he’s really responsive. :-)