Re: XyWrite to Word

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Harry Binswanger  on Sat, 25 Mar
2006
23:58:37 -0500

> For instance, don't you use ctrl-S instead of F5 SAve?

Yes; Control + S is one of the few that have been burned into memory.
May I suggest, in the gentle spirit of Xy-love, that you are not getting
the speed and transparency you could get? It's easy and *very* valuable to
have keystrokes also for:

STore
SE //
CI ///
copy (with clipw in U2)
ABort
NeXt window
cursor to command line
cursor from command line to text
BC
MoDe Normal
MoDe UnderLine
MoDe BOld
toggle expanded/regular display mode
transpose letters (I just used ctrl-3 to change in the above line "dispaly"
to "display"
cursor to end of line
cursor to beginning of line
dir *.*
delete word (xd,dw,rd)
delete line (xy,rl)
And: since I have changed the Windows Registry to swap CapsLock with
Ctrl, and move Alt to where it should be (where modern keyboards put
Ctrl), I use ctrl-keys right there at the left of the A key to do all
cursor movements (up, down, right, left) without taking my fingers off the
"home keys" (for touch-typing). Even with the standard positioning of the
shifting keys, it
has to be lots faster to do the above with shifted keystrokes.
One footnote: because ci /// can be dangerous if you hit the enter key at
the wrong time, I have my key shortcut omit the last "/." I add that by
hand, when I know I'm not going to make an error. This I learned from
painful experience.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx