Re: [libreoffice-users] Wordstar

And I wish I was still able to use wordstar ;-)

On 11/4/13, 3:58 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> Urmas wrote:
>
> > That's bullshit. Ctrl+J is a shortcut for Justify and... a paragraph mark in 
> > text controls.
> Actually, WordStar had different Ctrl+key functions than Word. Yes, today, Ctrl+J is a shortcut 
> for Justify, but back in the WordStar days, Ctrl+J did something different, as did most Ctrl+key 
> combinations. Ctrl+A, for example, moved the cursor one word to the left; Ctrl+F, one word to the 
> right. Ctrl+K opened up several file commands, such as Ctrl+K, P for Print. Today, these seem 
> archaic, but in the day, it was lightning quick for a good typist. To make matters even better, 
> the Ctrl key was positioned next to the “a” key, where the Caps Lock key is nowadays.
>
> The WordStar keystrokes were copied by many other programs, such as my beloved PC-Write, and VDE, 
> and even smaller, lighter editor.
>
> We DOS users were slow to embrace Windows, one of the biggest reasons being the dreaded mouse. 
> Touch typists hate taking their fingers off the keyboard to grab the mouse.
>
> The DOS camp was so dedicated that I even recall an article that argued that DOS users made 
> better writers than Windows users. The theory was that, while Windows users were busy trying to 
> pick the right font and page margins, DOS users were focusing on the content of their writing. 
> Now, today, I find myself spending more time configuring and modifying styles than I do actually 
> writing.
>
> And, remember the blazing speed of our old 286 PCs with 20 meg. hard drives? Despite today’s 
> dual-core, multi-gigabyte monster computer, I have yet to find a word processor that loads, 
> processes, and saves files as fast as PC-Write on a 1980s DOS computer. *Sigh*
>
> Virgil



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