Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing

["Dave Head" <rally2xs@compuserve.com>]

"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
keyboard
> > key combinations.  Nobody wants to do that.  Its also why EMACS hasn't
taken
> > over the world's programming consoles except on those owned by people
with
> > really, really good memories.
>
> 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.

And that's something else - while I can't explain Ctrl-V, at least Ctrl-C is
intuitive since it is a "copy" function - and Ctrl-C is the control key with
the 1st letter of the word copy.  I guess having the V right beside the C is
its only saving grace.

Then there's just delete to delete some highlighted text (no, I don't want
to use any keystrokes to do my highlighting like in Vi, if I remember
right...) and Ctrl-delete to copy it to the clipboard while also deleting it
from the document.

Anyway, I find bringing up  a help screen much less user-friendly than
activating a drop-down menu.  The drop-down menu just seems to be faster,
and I can get rid of it easier.  It fits a paradigm learned in all the other
windows apps and so I don't have to do anything special.

Maybe after I retire and I have tons of time to waste on memorizing all that
stuff... <G>

Dave Head

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