(originally typed in QEdit 3.0 under DosBox-X on Windows 10)
It has literally been decades since I have used QEdit. I have no earthly idea
what I'm doing. Apparently there's no default column wrap?
Let's try that again now that wordwrap is set to ON. Oh my God, the pain of it
all. That worked nicely.
Up, down, left and right. Not used to constantly being in text-add mode. So
far I'm getting around nicely with cursor keys and pgup/dn.
With these default settings I have nearly 539k of memory free to create a
document. I know Q can handle bigger.
Somehow though, it loses a lot of the appeal when I'm using a 32 gigabyte
operating system to run a 15 megabyte program to virtualize a PC for a 640k
operating system so I can run a 53k text editor. It would be far more elegant
to have the real thing on some kind of minimal modern hardware, which would
still be overkill - all running in an environment that can either stay fully
isolated or seamlessly connect to the rest of the world.
And it's all moot, as my muscle memory is all vi now. But nostalgia doesn't just
feel good; it reminds us of what was good about the past, and what we can still
have from that past to peacefully coexist with the best of the present.
