8 Jul
2016
8 Jul
'16
10:08 a.m.
On 07/08/2016 09:20 AM, Swift Griggs wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote:
Wordstar allowed for "user routines" for various keyboard and display
functions. I suspect you could have made any key or combination of keys
do all sorts of strange things.
After WS on the PC, I moved to Wordstar 2000. A great product, but
utterly incompatible with WordStar (MicroPro provided a "Star Exchange"
utility with WS2K to handle conversions). Different key combinations,
options, displays entirely. But it did handle prop spacing fonts quite
nicely. I still have the instructions from a third-party outfit on how
to make WS 3.3 handle prop spacing, but it's a real kludge.
Different WP packages had their own peculiar advantages. North Star
Memorite, for example, had great footnoting.
--Chuck
WordStar commands for that operation would be:
Mark beginning of
block: ^K B Mark end of block: ^K K (WordStar did not allow block
selection with the cursor keys.)
AFAIK, original Wordstar didn't, but the Borland IDE and Joe does.
Just hold down ctrl and start hitting cursor keys to cover the text
you need to select. Badabing. You've got yourself a selection.