
   Lesson 7:  Control-Key Commands

In addition to CUA commands (common user architecture, a worldwide standard ¨
for how to handle computers) like Ctrl-Ins for "copy block into clipboard", ¨
WSedit supports all Wordstar control commands. The control-key is abbreviated ¨
"Ctrl" or "^" in the documentation. To get an overview, press Ctrl-J (hold ¨
Ctrl down and then press J while Ctrl is pressed). WSedit can be manipulated ¨
completely with Ctrl commands without ever using the mouse. Even cursor ¨
movements can be made with Ctrl commands. If you want to learn more about ¨
WordStar Ctrl commands, please visit the "Ctrl commands" chapter in the WSedit ¨
documentation (press F1 in WSedit). Some functions are not so important and ¨
are only available by the Ctrl commands and not in the menu bar.

There are four control-key commands that require two keystrokes after pressing ¨
the Ctrl key: Ctrl-K, Ctrl-O, Ctrl-Q, and Ctrl-P.

If you open the subtrees, you see that the Ctrl commands are very powerful. ¨
Nevertheless, you can use all important WSedit functions without using Ctrl ¨
keys.

I can recommend the usage of Ctrl commands
- if you can type without looking at the keyboard
- if you write a lot of text, without forgetting the Ctrl commands
- if you have already used WordStar
- if you hate the mouse.

To get an idea about the usefulness of Ctrl commands, try the following:

Here is some text with words in the wrong order:
one two three five four six.
Now move the cursor to the beginning of the word "five" and
- press Ctrl-T for "delete word"
- press Ctrl-F for "move cursor one word to the right"
- press Ctrl-U for "paste trash buffer to cursor position"

and the order of the words is corrected now. Ctrl-T has deleted the word ¨
"five" and has put it to the trash buffer. The command Ctrl-U has pasted the ¨
trash buffer to the current cursor location. The "trash buffer" is independent ¨
from the clipboard and only reached via the Ctrl-U command.


End of Tutorial

This is the end of the short tutorial. Now you should basically know how to ¨
use Write&Set. Please use the WSedit and WSformat Online-Help for specific ¨
problems and the WSformat command window to learn more about dot commands.

