I tried to get the same look-and-feel like Wordstar 4. If you find differences,
please let me know.
But there are some essential differences caused by the different
internal structure of WSedit.
The WSedit editor is based on a non-wordwrap line-orientated
editor written for programmers which already supports some Wordstar Ctrl commands.
It's an object-orientated program, so I had to add or to overwrite some parts like
word-wrapping, spell-checking, paragraph indention and so on. But I can't change
some essentials of the editor. These essential properties - different to Wordstar
DOS - are:
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The editor holds all characters in lines which are limited to 255 characters.
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The characters you will see are the same which are stored in the memory of the computer.
In consequence, some Wordstar behaviour of showing text is not possible:
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It won't be possible to draw a line
behind ".PA", instead WSedit shows the page break by background-highlightning
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^OD "do not show toggles" is available since 0.92, but pressing any key will show
the toggles again: You can't type while toggles are not shown.
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Snow characters (soft spaces) are directly stored in the memory by the
ASCII character you will see in WSedit (ALT-176); you can directly enter this character
by ALT-176 or ^I. The TAB key is identical to ^OG.
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If you enter ^OB to omit the snow characters, all snow characters of the file are
changed from ALT-176 to ALT-255 which is a second SPACE
character; after retyping ^OB, ALT-255 is re-changed to ALT-176. So don't use
these two characters in your text for other purpose.
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For hyphenation characters at the end of the line, ALT-240 is used.
After saving a WSedit WS file, the file is accurately identical
to Wordstar 4 format.