Comparison of WordMaster and WordStar Commands

Comparison of WordMaster
and WordStar Commands

This list only shows the WordMaster Video mode commands (for Command mode commands look here) as WordStar had no Command mode.

                             WordMaster  WordStar
  Cursor left character          ^H         ^S
  Cursor right character         ^L         ^D
  Cursor down line               ^J         ^X
  Cursor up line                 ^K         ^E
  Cursor left word               ^A         ^A
  Cursor right word              ^D         ^F
  Cursor right tab stop          ^Z
  Cursor beginning/end of line   ^B         ^QS/^QD
  Cursor top/bottom of screen    ^^         ^QE/^QX
  Scroll down one line           ^E         ^W
  Scroll up one line             ^X         ^Z
  Scroll down one screen         ^C         ^C
  Scroll up on screen            ^R         ^R
  Insertion on/off               ^F         ^V
  Delete character left          Del        Del
  Delete character right         ^G         ^G
  Delete word left               ^\
  Delete word right              ^O         ^T
  Delete line left               ^U         ^QDel
  Delete line right              ^P         ^QY
  Delete entire line             ^Y         ^Y
  Tab                            ^I         ^I
  Insert CR                      ^N         ^N
  Insert CR or go to next line   CR         CR
  Repeat four times              ^W
  Put in file even if ctrl       ^]
  IMSAI VIO control              ^V
  Leave video mode               Esc

The ^H, ^L, ^J, ^K scroll commands of WordMaster come from the ADM-3A terminal, which had the equivalent arrows printed on these keys.

WordStar's early development used ^A, ^S, ^Z, ^W for Left, Right, Down, and Up, but these were later moved one key to the right to allow ^A to be reassigned to Word Left, and ^F then became Word Right.