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WordStar：为写作者而生的文字处理器（1996）
WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
导读
这是科幻作家 Robert J. Sawyer 在 1996 年写下的一篇为 WordStar 正名的文章：他认为这款纯键盘、不含任何花哨排版功能的“老古董”文字处理器，恰恰是最适合写作者的写作工具。对今天仍在与分心、格式和软件升级对抗的写作者来说，它提醒我们：写作工具的价值在于让你一直写下去，而不在于功能多。
可以直接用的写作要点
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写作时优先选择能减少干扰、让你一直写下去的工具，排版和格式等写完再处理。
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熟练掌握一套只用键盘的指令（如 WordStar 的方向键菱形布局），让手不离开键盘，思路就不容易被打断。
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把草稿保存成纯文本等通用格式，避免被某个软件或版本绑定，几十年后仍能打开自己的旧稿。
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不要在写作中途更换工具或升级，重新学习操作的成本会直接消耗创作精力。
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用户对操作习惯的肌肉记忆极其宝贵，任何改动若迫使他们重学，就会失去他们。
我用过很多文字处理器，WordStar 仍是我的最爱：先在 CP/M 上用，后来在 IBM PC 上用。用过的人都知道，一旦熟悉了那套方向键菱形布局，用起来简直像魔法。我至今还有几百个 WordStar 格式的文件，可以直接导入图形界面软件，也能在 Windows 的模拟环境里用 WordStar 7 打开。后来推出的 WordStar 2000 改了按键，等于给 WordStar 判了死刑。这种愚蠢又不讨喜的改动，值得每个软件开发者引以为戒。当年我在展会上还为此和 MicroPro 的 CEO Seymour Rubinstein 争过，我直说不会从 7 版升级，因为没理由为了一点小好处把辛苦练熟的键位全部重学。WordStar 2000 后来的失败说明，持这种看法的远不止我一个。
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).
作家应该对自己使用的工具有明确主张，而不是被动接受默认设置。
我对 WordStar 没有很深的个人感情，虽然我欣赏它的键盘布局，但我真正怀念的是：作家们曾经对各种工具是有自己的看法的。如今似乎大多是“笔记本自带的那版 Word，Times New Roman 12 号”。我们程序员还有自己的“圣战”，虽然这股热情也在消退，VSC 或 IntelliJ 这类安全选择越来越成为默认。但在过去，连没有计算机背景的作家都能就 XyWrite、WordStar、Word、WordPerfect 的优劣写成抒情长文，WordPerfect 甚至让律师们都有了自己的立场。
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)
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