At the risk or being labelled an old curmudgeon, I must admit that I was 'imprinted' with WordStar (roughly similar to "emacs", but very, very basic) over the course of 7 or 8 years in the 1980s. Consequently, I really only feel comfortable with WordStar or a modern clone.<p>I use "jstar" which is the 'WordStar persona' of the "joe" text-editor. I even renamed it to "ws".