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After reading the FAQ and Tips and Tricks, I can only imagine how amazing a modern terminal WordPerfect clone with Vim keybindings would be. I write a lot of pandoc markdown documents, vim and vscode are fine, but they are text editors not word processors.



WordPerfect 6 for Dos was my favourite word processor. Vim keybindings would make WP pretty incredible.


Also you need a template to drop over the function keys. How would that work on a modern keyboard!?

https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1604126863067008/UI__3_WordPer...


Don’t forget a buckling spring keyboard for that ultimate bare metal experience.


Neovim with the markdown preview plugin does a really really neat job if you haven't tried it.


I began a complete clone about a year ago, but paused work when I decided to start a startup :)

It was mainly just a technical exercise, but comments like yours make me think that people would actually use it.


I don't use it personally, but from what I hear this is exactly the use case Emacs was made for.




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