Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb
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Re: Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb
#2Interesting.
I think I might be I interested if I weren’t a vi-mapping kinda guy. The ubiquity is good.
Re: Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb
#3I only know Wordstar as being the text editor GRR Martin uses to write on his DOS machine:
https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin...
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#4> Arrow keys are the bane of keyboard life. You constantly have to lift your hands off the touch-typing home keys to move around your software file
Or you can purchase a programmable keyboard with customizable chords such as an Ergodox keyboard.
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#5i like how macos does it with separating the ctrl key from most actions with command key. so we can use ctrl in gnu readline style freely on all text areas natively.
for example to find in document, you press cmd-f and you can use ctrl-f to move cursor forward in text (or ctrl-option-f to jump to the next word etc.)
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#6> Arrow keys are the bane of keyboard life. You constantly have to lift your hands off the touch-typing home keys to move around your software file Or you can purchase a programmable keyboard with customizable chords such as an Ergodox keyboard.
with kmonad you don't even need a programable keyboard.
Re: Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb
#7Wow - wordstar makes a mention on HN. During the college days mid 90s some of the admins in our lab used Wordstar. For us kids it was Framemaker or Word. We couldn't convince the admins to move to a Windows 3.1 based hot modern UI :-)
Re: Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb
#8Interesting. I think I might be I interested if I weren’t a vi-mapping kinda guy. The ubiquity is good.
I use vi frequently, but I would be interested if the Wordstar mappings provide a speed benefit. They do seem to be easier to type.
Re: Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb
#9> ^QJ is goto line
How does that work in every program?
Re: Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb
#10I only know Wordstar as being the text editor GRR Martin uses to write on his DOS machine: https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin...
Wordstar was the dominant word processor because it was designed from the ground up to be as portable as possible, which made it available on a wide variety of 80s home computers, particularly those running CP/M.
Eventually that portability came to hurt it, because eventually everyone was running DOS, and Wordstar couldn't take advantage of DOS's unique environment, and so WordPerfect came along and ate its lunch.