HELP VEDWORDSTAR Andreas Schoter April 1990
This help file describes the keybindings for LIB *VEDWORDSTAR which
is a library designed to enable VED to emulate the most common keys of
WordStar type word procesors. In most instances the bindings follow the
usual WordStar pattern but in the case of scrolling they have had to be
changed because of conflict with a UNIX feature. It should also be noted
that the usual VED bindings of ^D for ENTER lmr and ESC D for loadline
have been changed due to a clash with the standard WordStar bindings for
charright.
Experienced Wordstar users should note that the usual Wordstar
binding of ^Z (Control Z) for scrolling cannot be used in this library,
instead ESC Z has been substituted. See the section on Cursor Control
for details.
This file lists the keybindings and the VED function bound to that
key. It also gives a brief description of the function, but for a more
detailed description of VED commands see REF * VEDCOMMS
CONTENTS - (Use <ENTER> g to access required sections)
-- Cursor Control
-- Delete and Retrieve
-- Save
-- Margins
-- Block Commands
-- Search and Replace
-- Special Functions and Toggles
-- VED Functions
-- Loading the library ------------------------------------------------
To make the library available do the following in your vedinit.p file:
uses vedwordstar
See HELP * INITIAL
The remainder of this file describes how to use the Wordstar emulation
facilities in VED.
-- Cursor Control ------------------------------------------------------
KEY FUNCTION DESCRIPTION
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^S charleft Move one character left
^D charright Move one character right
^E charup Move up one line
^X chardown Move down one line
^A wordleft Move one word left
^F wordright Move one word right
^Q S screenleft Move to left margin
^Q D textright Move to right end of line
^Q E screenup Move to top of screen
^Q X screendown Move to bottom of screen
^Q R topfile Move to top of file
^Q C endfile Move to end of file
ESC Z scrolldown Scroll down one line
ESC W scrollup Scroll up one line
-- Delete and Retrieve -------------------------------------------------
KEY FUNCTION DESCRIPTION
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^Y linedelete Delete the whole line
^T wordrightdelete Delete the word to the right
^G dotdelete Delete character under cursor
DEL chardelete Delete the character to the left
^Q DEL clearhead Delete left side of line
^Q Y cleartail Delete right side of line
^K Y ENTER d Delete block
^K J ENTER clear Delete file
-- Save ----------------------------------------------------------------
KEY FUNCTION DESCRIPTION
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^K D ENTER bye Finish edit session
^K S ENTER w1 Save file and re-edit
^K X ENTER wq Save file and exit
^K Q ENTER q Abandon edit
-- Margins -------------------------------------------------------------
KEY FUNCTION DESCRIPTION
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^O L ENTER lcol Set left margin current position
^O R ENTER rcol Set right margin to current pos
^O C ENTER centre Centre current line of text
-- Block Commands ------------------------------------------------------
It should be noted that VED ranges are not exactly identical to the
WordStar concept of a block. See HELP *MARK for further details.
KEY FUNCTION DESCRIPTION
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^K B marklo Mark block beginning
^K K markhi Mark block end
^K V ENTER m Move block to current location
^K C ENTER t Copy block to current location
^Q B markfind Put cursor at beginning of block
^Q K markendfind Put cursor at end of block
-- Search and Replace --------------------------------------------------
KEY FUNCTION DESCRIPTION
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^Q F ENTER / Find a string
^Q A ENTER s/ Find and replace a string
In both cases the cursor is put onto the command line waiting for a
string to be entered. In the case of "find", enter the string and press
RETURN. In the case of "Find and Replace" type the string to be found
followed by the '/' character followed by the string to replace it with
then hit RETURN.
See HELP *VEDCOMMS/Search and Substitute commands
-- Special Functions and Toggles ---------------------------------------
KEY FUNCTION DESCRIPTION
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^B ENTER jjp Justify the current paragraph
^V setstatic Toggle insert mode on/off
^O W ENTER break Toggle word wrap mode on/off
-- VED Functions -------------------------------------------------------
KEY FUNCTION DESCRIPTION
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ESC D ENTER lmr Compile the marked range
ESC L loadline Compile the current line only
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