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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Well, Wordstar was/is purely controlled by control key combinations, which means touch-typists don't have to move their hands off the keyboard for anything. For old-school typists that is priceless. After 30-plus years his muscle memory on those commands has to be so ingrained he probably gives no conscious thought to anything but the words.
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That's one of the things I liked about Wordstar. Although it took a little time to get used to the Control Key commands, they were fairly easy to understand (and they were organized in a somewhat logical manner) and I eventually got to the point that I just knew the commands that I regularly used. Moving my cursor around the screen with just the Control Keys was much faster than using a mouse or a menu system.
Another thing that I liked about Wordstar is that all of the formatting is visible on screen, and many of them (such as the manual page break [.pa]) are typeable by the user rather than having to enter commands. While it wasn't WYSIWYG, you still had an idea of what it would look like on paper.