A typewriter has a simple keyboard. It has the two copies of the alphabet, some punctuation marks and symbols, a tab, a shift lock, and a Return (lever).
A text editors keyboard has many more keys than a typewriter. More importantly, it has three very different types of keys, which means keys and key combinations.
The typing keys are all those more or less like those on the typewriter keyboard. Navigation keys are those used to move around in what you are writing. Function keys do tasks for you. The distinctions seem obvious, but in existing Windows text editors, hot-key assignments consistently use valuable typing keys to perform tasks. Recently, in Windows programs, typing keys are used for Clipboard operations which should be, and were, handled by navigation keys. In Microsofts Word and WordPad, the navigation keys still work but are relegated to the undocumented.
EWriter is a textwriter. It is a writing instrument, not just a program in which a writer, like anyone else, can type. In building a textwriter, the builder wants to enable as many typing and writing possibilities as possible. It is important to keep the distinctions above in mind. Take a newer text editor like WordPad. Open the File menu. You will see that the hot-key for getting a new file is Ctrl+N. This is a task and a function key should be used as the hot-key. In eWriter Ctrl+N types ’ on the page. Look closely at hot-keys on eWriter menus. If you see only what you expect to see, you might miss small changes.
The Ctrl+N use illustrates why those Ctrl+letter keys should be protected from carelessly made assignments. They are a finite resource and anyone setting up a writing environment will find uses for them. Using key combinations that make sense operationally sharpens intuition where a simple spelling mnemonic must surely dull it.
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