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I confess I never liked that aspect of Wordstar on CP/M (old S-100 and Z80 card in an Apple II and later an Amstrad PCW8512) or on DOS. Didn't like Wordperfect either, though I had to teach it for a while. I used MS Word on DOS for a short while and later wrote a text editor for DOS in Modula-2 that could play an audio file and control it with a footpedal. It could work without a mouse, but on DOS the there were drop down menus in Windows style using either keypresses or mouse. It was entirely text mode. No actual graphics. It worked well enough on NT in the NTVDM too. The idea was to copy a dictation cassette (micro or regular) at twice speed (i.e. normal cassette speed) to the hard disk and then no expensive audio dictation machine was needed. The foot peddle used the joystick port on the sound card and had no electronics, just switches. I did try a pot and sprung peddle for variable speed but the test typists didn't need it. They used play/pause, skip back and skip forward.
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