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 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] 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 [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
