In a post between "mark lewis : August Abolins", on 4/3/2019 12:24 AM

>  AA> Even Wordperfect and Wordstar managed to share the same key-combos.
>
> not in my experience... i detested WP because it didn't use the standard
> touch-typist keys that i learned from my programming editors...
>
> eg: these wordstar touch-typist keystrokes
>     ^KB  block begin
>     ^KK  block end
>     ^KC  block copy
>     ^KV  block move
>     ^KW  block write
>     ^KY  block delete

I *may* be confusing Wordstar with another editor.  I'd swear WordPerfect had
many shared editing commands with another popular wordprocessor.   Wordperfect
was a standard in one place of work and I adapted to using it fairly easily for
 producing specifications documents.

So.. then oxp (then originally known as Crosspoint) incorporated Wordstar
editor commands.  Fair enough.


>  AA> BUT, OXP has so m-a-n-y features.  For a program that  was initially
>  AA> released in early 1992, ..  it's impressive.
>
> there's a lot of FTN tools like that... GoldEd is one that also has a
> lot of those capabilities... i only use the standard FTN stuff with
> it, though...

I probably worked with GoldEd for a while back in the day.  I don't think I had
 any complaints about it.  But when I discovered FleetStreet, that was "the
one" to beat.  <g>


>  AA> INSert key has a special function in oxp.  (I don't know how to pop
>  AA> out of this editor and come back to edit the same message - yet,
>  AA> otherwise I would tell you exactly what INS does.)
>
> can't open another window and look at the help? i have no less than a dozen
> windows open over here... some running specific monitoring tasks and others
> waiting on input or something to do 

Nope.  There is no known way to have multiple windows in oxp. It's just one
screen at a time.  But the context sensitive help (via F1 at any screen level)
is pretty good.

When in a list view of messages, INS will put that message on Hold, (same as H
key)

When in list view of messages, you can't create a new message.  You have to
back out to the echo list view, highlight the echo you want to create a new
message in, and press W to W)rite the new message.

Weird, I know.  But once you go through that a few times it becomes 2nd nature.

But.. I think I will still lean towards using TB most of the time.

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