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WordStar：作家的文字处理器（1996）
WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
2017 — 2024，它一次次回到首页
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科幻作家罗伯特·J·索耶撰写的长文，讲述 WordStar 这款 1980 年代经典文字处理软件为何深受作家青睐：它的按键布局（著名的“按键菱形”）让写作时双手不离键盘、不被格式和界面干扰。文章回顾了它的设计理念、历史地位，以及它对后世编辑器按键习惯的深远影响。
为什么经久不衰：它记录了“为写作者而非排版者设计工具”的理念，在干扰越来越多的今天，这种极简专注的写作方式依然有启发意义。
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极简纯文本环境最能保护写作心流
我业余从事写作，写作用的电脑是一台纯文本的 FreeBSD 最小安装。我用 joe 或 vim 写作，所有文件放进 git 方便同步和备份。对我来说，干扰越少越好——连自动拼写检查的红线都会打断我的思路。
itsoggy查看英文原文
I'm an writer in my spare time, my writing PC is a basic text only FreeBSD install. I use joe or vim and put everything in git for easy transfer and backup. For me, I need as little destruction as possible, I even find auto spell check with its red underlining completely destructive when it comes to my flow of thoughts.
抛弃用户肌肉记忆的改版是 WordStar 衰落的关键教训
我用过很多文字处理器，WordStar 仍是我的最爱。熟悉了它的按键菱形之后用起来如魔法一般。WordStar 2000 改掉了原有按键习惯，这一愚蠢且不受欢迎的改动葬送了它——每个软件开发者都应引以为鉴。我还曾在展会上当面和 MicroPro CEO Seymour Rubinstein 争论过此事。
hilbert42查看英文原文
I've used many wordprocessors but WordStar still is my favorite, I first used it under CP/M and later on the IBM PC. Anyone who has used it knows that once you got the feel for the WordStar keystroke diamond it was magic to use. I still have hundreds of files in WordStar format and I can either import them into a GUI WYSIWYG WP or I can still use them in WordStar 7 running under an emulated environment in Windows. WordStar came in various varieties with version 7 the last before it changed direction to WordStar 2000 (which, incidentally, was well before the year 2000). This put death knell on WordStar as its keystrokes were different to previous ones. Making a stupid and unpopular change like that ought to be a lesson for every software developer When WordStar 2000 was released I recall that when at an exhibition having an argument with Seymour Rubinstein, CEO of MicroPro, WS's developer, about these stupid changes. I told him bluntly that I would not be upgrading from version 7 as I saw no reason why I should relearn all the hard-earned keystrokes for little advantage. The fact that WordStar 2000 failed, it seems that I was far from being alone with that view. Incidentally, for those who are not familiar with WordStar, MicroPro or Seymour Rubinstein—Seymour Rubinstein was the inventor of the now infamous EULA—End User License Agreement! WordStar was close to the first program to have an EULA attached (from memory I think WordMaster (an earlier WP that predated WordStar), was actually first—someone correct me if I'm wrong).
怀念人们对写作工具充满热情与主张的年代
我对 WordStar 没有深厚感情，但我怀念的是作家们对工具曾有强烈观点的时代。如今大家用的都是“笔记本自带的 Word 版本”。过去连律师都能对 WordPerfect 发表见解，作家们能为 XyWrite、WordStar、Word 之争滔滔不绝。
mhd查看英文原文
I don't have a deep personal affectation for WordStar, although I do appreciate it's keyboard layout, but what I do miss is writers having opinions about these things. These days it seems that it's mostly "whatever version of Word that came with my Laptop/Times New Roman 12". We programmers still have our "holy wars" (although I see a decrease of passion here, too, with safe choices like VSC or IntelliJ being more and more the default.) But back in the days, even writers with non-CS backgrounds could wax poetic about XyWrite vs. WordStar vs. Word (DOS/Win/Mac) vs WordPerfect. (Heck, WordPerfect even made lawyers have an opinion of their own)
WordStar 按键方案深刻影响了后世众多编辑器
WordStar 间接也是“程序员的文字处理器”：Borland 的编辑器（Turbo Pascal、Turbo C 等）、JOE 等都沿用了 WordStar 的组合键。
faragon查看英文原文
Also a Programmers' Word Processor, indirectly: Borland editors (Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, etc.), JOE, and others, took many of the WordStar key combinations... [1] [1] http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WordStarFamily
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