From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc94896f23dccfae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-06 10:06:15 PST Message-ID: <3E678CC9.3040307@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:00:41 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1046973643 198.96.47.195 (Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:00:43 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:00:43 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34986 Date: 2003-03-06T13:00:41-05:00 List-Id: Dave Head wrote: > "Preben Randhol" wrote in message > news:slrnb6dtep.li.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no... > >>Dave Head wrote: >> >>>"Frank J. Lhota" 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