From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:00:41 -0500
Date: 2003-03-06T13:00:41-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E678CC9.3040307@cogeco.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b47lso$q8g$1@oanews.nswc.navy.mil
Dave Head wrote:
> "Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
> news:slrnb6dtep.li.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no...
>
>>Dave Head wrote:
>>
>>>"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote in message
>>>news:JZo9a.25710$8f7.21367@nwrdny02.gnilink.net...
>>>
>>>>Would WordStar have survived if it was rewritten in Ada?
>>>
>>>No. The thing that killed WordStar is having to memorize all those
...
>>Well, I actually went from Emacs to Vim which has a lot of key
>>combinations. For me it works. But then again I wouldn't teach my better
>>half to use Vim.
>>
>>However, it makes me cringe when I see people using the mouse and menu
>>for Copy and Paste.
>
> Oh, yeah, me too... I can't remember how I did it before Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V,
> but I don't think I used the menu more than a few times for it.
What I hate is that Win2K command window still does not support any
keyboard shortcut for paste. You always have to pull down the system
menu, select Edit, then select Paste. Now there is a model of
efficiency for you! At least copy can be done with mouse and CR.
--
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-05 15:46 Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing Frank J. Lhota
2003-03-05 20:40 ` Dave Head
2003-03-05 21:09 ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-03-05 21:47 ` Pascal Obry
2003-03-05 22:37 ` Robert A Duff
2003-03-05 23:29 ` DPH
2003-03-06 0:09 ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-03-06 1:57 ` John R. Strohm
2003-03-06 19:45 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-07 1:50 ` DPH
2003-03-07 15:06 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-07 17:22 ` Pascal Obry
2003-03-05 21:56 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-03-06 14:06 ` Peter Hermann
2003-03-06 19:47 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-06 7:18 ` Preben Randhol
2003-03-06 14:29 ` Dave Head
2003-03-06 14:44 ` Peter Hermann
2003-03-06 18:00 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
2003-03-06 19:00 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-03-06 19:50 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-06 23:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
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