Setting text console dimensions via Grub2

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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:33:45PM -0400, trev.saunders at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm confused, vim is very touch typest friendly, you basically don't 
> ever have to move your hands off the home row :) btw joe claims to do 
> this when invoked as jstar.

	Yes, I have joe installed, but it has that annoying pico, 
cursors left to the previous line instead of stopping at column 1 jazz.  
If I'd wanted to cursor to the line above, I'd have pressed cursor up.  
I'm always having to double-check my cursor position to make sure I'm 
editting the right line in nano.

	You still have to hit the escape key in vi/vim to save. set 
modes, change edit buffers, etc., where saving a file in WordStar is a 
simple Ctrl+KS (or was it Ctrl+QS...I forget, it's been so long).  Your 
hands don't even have to leave the home row to cursor around.  Anyway, 
WordStar was one of the first editors I ever used, and I grew to love 
the old fossil, back in my old 80186 days.  It's too bad there isn't a 
better port than jstar.  It would insert the troff dot commands for you, 
and most of HTML is based on the old troff commands.  A simple search 
and replace would easily convert a document to HTML.

	If I didn't think WordStar was writtne in 8086 assembly, I'd be 
nagging MicroPro to release the old sourcecode to GPL (if they even 
still exist).

				Michael

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