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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