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The Monday 2007-04-09 at 20:15 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

>  [...]
> > The default keybindings are based loosely on "WordStar", which had a
> > lot of clones that used the same commands.
> 
> which, iirc, originated on cp/m.  After learning Wordstar keystrokes
> and then dos with qedit from semware, later renamed, it's difficult to
> adapt to another editor    :^)

Right.

WordStar was designed for touch typists, that's why its "human-api" has 
been so successful.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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