On 07/08/2016 09:20 AM, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote: >> 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.
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
