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Wordstar keycodes and other keycodes

This editor knows nearly all Wordstar key commands. These commands are activated by pressing Ctrl (Control). There are Wordstar commands with Strng and a single character key and commands with two character keys. the commands with two character keys are beginning with Ctrl-K, Ctrl-O or Ctrl-Q, in WSedit also Ctrl-P.

In WSedit, the "Wordstar" keymapping cannot be changed. In the other editors (Hypermake, ME, Textbuch), you can also select the keycodes "CUA" and "Mixed". "CUA" does not know Ctrl-commands with two character keys and the commands are close to other Windows editors - although there are no clear default standards. When selecting "CUA", some functionality of the editor is no more in reach.

When selecting "Mixed", the single-character Ctrl commands are like "CUA", nevertheless you have got access to the double-character "Wordstar" Ctrl commands.

Ctrl is abbreviated with ^ in this documentation.