Les wrote:
Programmers haven't seen the need for control-key commands since
keyboards started including an alt key and a bunch of function keys and
everything has a mouse.
I think his point was that all require that "\you remove your hands from
the home row due to the means by which they are called."
Yes, but if you are in a hurry you would type all the text first, then
go back through and apply styles instead of micro-managing formatting as
you go.
I used Wordstar for quite awhile during my cp/m days, and still miss
it.
It was OK for its time but it didn't age very well.
That is NOT what happened. I don't remember all the details, but the OS
intercepted some of the main command key sequences which rendered
Wordstar unusable. They couldn't even port it to windows without
removing the command sequences and replacing them with mouse gestures,
and that made it almost identical with Word, except at that time
Wordstar had merge and variable capabilities that Word couldn't
incorporate until some patents ran out. At the same time Microsoft
bought up some of the vendors supplying snap-ins to Wordstar, and
discontinued their production. I don't know if there is a complete
history anywhere, and I suspect that most of it has gone away by now,
except for some arcane archives somewhere, but it was a real disservice
to the world of editing, and among its results is the prevalence of
Carpal Tunnel syndrome.
If your point was that Microsoft is an abusive monopoly that deserves
better competition, then I didn't mean to argue with it.
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