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Feeling Page

The "Feeling" Page of the settings notebook relates to settings which let you adapt the behaviour of WSedit to Wordstar (DOS) or to current editors like Windows Notepad, OS/2 System Editor or Windows wordprocessors like Word. If you enable all settings above the separation line, you get the feeling of Wordstar (DOS), and if you disable them, you'll get the feeling of current Windows editors. All these settings are very subjective and depend on your individual preferences:

Underline Cursor instead of vertical line Cursor
interchange cusor shape for Insert/Overwrite
mark block after paste
Cursor to block begin after paste
Allow Cursor outside text area
Persistent Blocks with mouse
Typing text does not overwrite block

Begin text selection only if mouse does not move is independent of the Wordstar/Windows feeling settings neither exists on Wordstar nor on Windows editors. If you unintended mark a block when selecting the text cursor position with the mouse, because the mouse gets little moved while clicking the mouse button, turn this setting on.

WSedit and ME have got two additional settings:

Ctrl-KC block marker remains at source
relates to the Ctrl-KC Wordstar key command (copy block to cursor position) and is only in reach if you have got chosen "Wordstar" or "Mixed" keymapping.

Only Ctrl-Del deletes transient block, not Del alone
The backspace key is treated similar.

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