Greg G. wrote:

I learned WordStar as my first real word processor, and the keyboard
mapping allowed me to emulate it quite well. I despised WordPerfect
and those annoying, inconsistent function key mappings. While there
may have been a way around it, I never used it enough to find out.


FYI: jstar, which comes with many Linux distros and is
on this account's FreeBSD system, is Joe Allen's joe
wordstar mode. Free. GPL

jstar(1): Joe's Own Editor - Linux man page
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/jstar.1.html

Robert Sawyer's agrees with you on WordPerfect
WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor
URL: http://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm