When I left Borland for Netscape, I kept Brief nearby mainly because another tool, Coderwright, provided a Windows-based programmer’s editor as well Brief keyboard emulation. Unlike WordStar, I don’t remember much of these keystrokes although I suspect Ctrl-Arrow is a holdover from those days. Like WordPerfect, Brief went out of it’s way to get the hell out of your way which, given real estate situation with text based non-GUI editors, was a plus. Like WordPerfect, Brief used an obscure set of keystrokes to get the done. The words.Īt the time, I was working at Borland and the engineering community used Brief.
#Black background macvim code
Well, you can, but your code looks horrible because graphical user interfaces do a splendid job of forcing look and feel down your throat, but as a programmer all you care about is the precision of the content. Wordstar was dead and graphical user interfaces were the shit, so I spent a brief time courting relevant versions of Microsoft Word within Windows 95, but I quickly learned this wasn’t going to work in my industry. You would never believe me how many people on this planet are still using DOS-based versions of WordPerfect right this very second… so I’m not going to tell you… you probably know one.īut I am a geek and geeks evolve because if they don’t they become a joke.
#Black background macvim Pc
that I’d be running Wordstar in a Virtual PC window on my Mac right now. It’s entirely possible if I wasn’t afflicted with N.A.D.D.
I did most of early college work inside a DOS window running Wordstar even as Wordperfect, Lotus Ami Pro, and early versions of Microsoft Word were kicking the shit out of Wordstar. When forced to abandon my Apple ][ for a PC, Wordstar was there and continued to be there as early versions of Windows arrived. Who cared none of my other apps ran in CP/M… I knew Wordstar… and still do today. I would literally reboot my Apple ] [ (equipped with my swank CP/M hardware card) in order to get to my word processor. This was an editor which ran many years ago on CP/M. My first conversion to (hold your breath) Wordstar. Might as well compare and contrast reasons to breathe. Arguing with you about moving to a different editor is pointless. You are the wizard of Emacs or the king of bbedit. In time, you grow comfortable with it, like your favorite type of pen, and that’s it… you’re done. You start ignorant… wondering what all the fuss is about and then you either discover or are forced into a particular editor.
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