Re: Making mode commands symmetrical (or should I say complementary?)

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:
My way:

hit ctrl-B
move to end of text to be bolded
hit ctrl-N

Your way:

hit the key for DeFine (F1 perhaps)
move to the end of the text to be bolded
hit the key for DeFine again
hit ctrl-B
The only "penalty" for my way of doing business is that you temporarily
see all the text following the insertion of  go bold. But that
ends the instant you hit the ctrl-N.
No. sorry. I've been using the out-of-the-box method since I
first got Xy4. If you want to bold (or ital or underline-don't;
underline, I mean), you hit ctrl-B (or whatever other key you've
defined, but this is the Windows CUA, so it's easy to remember)
at the beginning, then Ctrl-B or whatever again at the end. And
if you want to bold an already defined block, you just have to
hit ctrl-B ONCE (using the out-of-the-box keys):
F3 to begin define
move to end, F3 again
Ctrl-B
the whole block has  at the beginning and  at the end.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx