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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, you get the feeling of Wordstar (DOS), and if you disable them all, you'll get the feeling of current Windows editors. All these settings are very subjective and depend on your individual preferences.

Here some explanations:

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.

Ctrl-KC block marker remains at source
relates to Wordstar block functionality Ctrl-KC "copy block to current cursor position" and is only accessible with "Wordstar" and "mixed" keymapping. If you do not use Wordstar keys, this setting is not relevant.

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

Take word under cursor for default value in search/replace dialog
copies the word at the current cursor position to the "Find" edit field in the search or in the search/replace dialog. This behavoiour is more typical for non-wordprocessing usage.

Cursor word right/left orientate to spaces instead of characters
influences the behaviour of the "cursor word right/left" buttons Ctrl-Cursor left/right (Wordstar commands Ctrl-F and Ctrl-A). The difference gets visible when the cursors jumps over characters which are no letters like punctuation marks or parenthesis.