Re: [libreoffice-users] OTT keyboard customization

Hi :)
I think that if you are using Gnu&Linux then you might be able to set your 
keyboard short-cuts to use the WordStar navigation commands to work in all 
relevant applications.  It might be difficult to change the use of CtrlX tho.  
As Planas points out it does depend on what those key combinations were/are.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar

There is a word-processor, released under GPL, that uses the same key 
combinations as WordStar but it seems to work inside a command window.  Also 
although it works in Gnu&Linux and Bsd it needs something like Cygwin to run in 
Windows.  There is even a program that works with it that swaps the shift and 
Ctrl keys around so that the keyboard works the way older keyboards used to.   
It hasn't had any upgrades or even updates in the last few years but it does 
seem to have taken the key combinations a bit further than WordStar.  Apparently 
it's possible to have a ribbon showing  key-combinations just as WordStar used 
to.  So it's got a lot in common with Vi but it uses WordStar combinations 
rather than Vi ones.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor
http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
The SourceForge page is not a downloads page, it's Joe's home page.  


For other people following this thread the key combinations according to the 
Wikipedia page  ... 

"For example, the "diamond" of Ctrl-S/E/D/X moved the cursors one  character or 
line to the left, up, right, or down. Ctrl-A/F (to the  outside of the 
"diamond") moved the cursor a full word left/right, and  Ctrl-R/C (just "past" 
the Ctrl keys for up and down) scrolled a full  page up/down. Prefacing these 
keystrokes with Ctrl-Q generally expanded  their action, moving the cursor to 
the end/beginning of the line,  end/beginning of the document, etc. Ctrl-H would 
backspace and delete. Commands to enable bold or italics,  printing, blocking 
text to copy or delete, saving or retrieving files  from disk, etc. were 
typically a short sequence of keystrokes, such as  Ctrl-P-B for bold, or 
Ctrl-K-S to save a file. Formatting codes would  appear on screen, such as ^B 
for bold, ^Y for italics, and ^S for underscoring. "
So i suspect there might be trouble with trying to redefine Ctrl X and Ctrl S 
from their usual functions although i'm not clear about that.  There is another 
thread dealing with that issue at the moment.

    Although many of these keystroke sequences were far from self-evident, they 
tended to lend themselves to mnemonic devices (e.g., Ctrl-Print-Bold, 
Ctrl-blocK-Save), and regular users quickly learned them through muscle memory, 
enabling them to rapidly navigate documents by touch, rather than memorizing 
"Ctrl-S = cursor left."    Some users believe that the relocation of the Ctrl 
key from the position just to the left of the A key on the PC XT-era keyboard 
(where Caps-Lock is found on modern keyboards), to the far lower left, 
interferes with this tactile approach,"

It might be worth contacting Joe's developers and original creator to see if 
they are interested in working with LibreOffice devs.  It might also be 
interesting to explore contacting"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology" 
originally started as Riverdeep Interactive Learning as they bought WordStar but 
don't appear to have done anything with it.  (reminiscent of Oracle so take 
care)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt_Learning_Technology

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)




________________________________
From: planas <jslozier@gmail.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 30 May, 2011 5:22:19
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] OTT keyboard customization

Alex

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 07:17 +0700, Alex Mavro wrote:

> Greetings -- I have a ws.ott template file that allows me to use most
> WordStar navigation commands -- the cursor diamond, etc -- in Open Office.
> However, the same file does not work in LibreOffice... Is there any reason
> for this?
>
> Alex in Bangkok

I am not sure, I would need to see some typical commands/key
combinations. I am not very familiar with WordStar, I understand it is
abandonware. I vaguely remember it from about 20 years ago but never
used it.
-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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