On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 09:43:05AM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 2017-06-24 12:12 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
On 2017-06-23 04:52 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
It likely wouldn't work even if you tried. I have friends in a writer's group dedicated to maintaining Wordstar keyboard compatibility in modern word processors.
IIRC, Word has some sort of macro or scripting feature. Could that be used to provide the vi like behaviour you want?
Maybe, but that's too advanced for me. You can customize key shortcuts, File -> Options -> ...I forget... -> "All Commands" There, you can select action like "DeleteBackWord", it will show you current binding (Ctrl-Delete), and you can specify different key binding. The default key bindings aren't that bad. After few days of intense struggle, I've gotten used to Word-way somewhat. For example, within a line, - Left/Right Arrow keys -- by char - Ctrl + Left/Right Arrows -- by word - Home/End -- beginning or end of line - Shift + Left/Rigth Arrows -- selection by char - Shift + Ctrl + Left/Rigth Arrows -- selection by word - Shift + Home/End -- selection to beginning or end of line - Backspace, Delete -- delete by char - Ctrl + Backspace/Delete -- delete by word So, to delete a line (dd), - Home, Shift + End, Ctrl-X -- William