Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!tcdcs!dce.ie!em From: em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Wordstar-like editor for Unix Message-ID: <1990Sep21.114258.8435@dce.ie> Date: 21 Sep 90 11:42:58 GMT References: <1299@infko.UUCP> <8732@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Organization: Datacode Communications Ltd, Dublin, Ireland Lines: 18 In article <8732@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) writes: [re wordstar arrow-key emulation] >map ^A ^V^[hi >map ^D ^V^[li > >etc. You stay in insert mode and do cursor movement with the wordstar >keys. Mapping the menu stuff ^Q and ^K is harder but do-able. (That should be map!, not map.) This topic seems to come up every few months and advice like the above is invariably given. I would be very interested to see a macro for up or down cursor motion that works correctly in all parts of a line, including the first character. If you try writing such a macro you will soon see what the problem is. -- Eamonn McManus Fingers are for fuguing.