>Was it Wordstar that people raved about way back when? For sure it seemed to have more than a moment of glory. I was still a mainframe bigot ('PC, who needs one of those toys') back then so I don't know.
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A trip down memory lane.....

WordStar was my favorite way back when, especially since I did mostly text editting rather than word processing. I was really upset when Word Perfect supplanted it for reasons that (at least to me) were more marketing ploys than technical improvements.

It had one feature that I haven't been able to find in more modern products. With (I think) Ctrl-K-I you were able to cut and paste rectangular blocks (the part denoted with caps in my example). It was very useful for me in editting SDF type text files. If anybody knows how to do this in Word (or the VFP editor) I'd appreciate the tip.

aaaBBBCCCCDDDDeeeeffff
aaaBBBCCCCDDDDeeeeffff 
aaaBBBCCCCDDDDeeeeffff
aaaBBBCCCCDDDDeeeeffff