WordStar Conference About: Make Lines Less Deletable (18 lines)
One feature of WordStar is quick deletion of a whole line. However, the
users can occasionally delete a line when all they wanted to do was
delete a word. If you want to make it less easy to delete a line, there is a
patch which requires the ^Y to be stroked twice before the line disappears.
MSDOS VERSIONS:
For WordStar 3.3, change the value at address 0536h from 00 to 19 hex. That
is the same address for WordStar 3.0. For WordStar version 2.26, change the
value at address 052Eh from 00 to 19h.
CP/M VERSIONS:
Fo� WordSta� 3.3� chang� th� valu� a� addres� 054E� fro� 0� t� 1� hex. In
version 3.0, the address is believed to be 0536h. Before patching, verify
that the byte PRIOR to the one you modify is already a 19h, and the one you
intend to modify is a 00.
Afte� yo� sav� you� modifie� WS.COM� a stroke of the ^Y should show you
a ^Y in the upper left corner of the screen, but nothing happens to your
cursor line until you hit ^Y the second time. If you decide you don't want
to delete the line, then hit ^U or ESC to interrupt what you have started.
Test before freezing this mod into your working copy of WS.COM since I have
not tried this on all versions of WordStar, all computers. Works on mine.
