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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder if there's a FOSS Linux compatible clone.

EDIT: There sure is. http://wordtsar.ca/

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Apparently, The joe editor has a jstar mode, so says this old Stackexchange thread. I can't verify because I've never used Wordstar, but joe's available in my distro's repository.

No idea if it can read old WordStar files, but maybe you don't need that.

For the GUI version - and some old file capability, the same page and other searches turn up WordTsar which is in progress. The dev says they'll be picking up development again next month.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Joe is amazing. It’s my primary editor.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've got muscle memory for sudo apt install joe.

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Look Ma, I'm famous.

There's also WordGrinder, which is meant to do the job of no bullshit, no distractions word processing. It's a slight step above a text editor in that it can do bold and such but it's meant to get the words out of your head and onto the screen and that's about it.