Wordstar Navigation Keys

EditPad Pro supports the classic Wordstar navigation keys for people who are used to them. WordStar is an old word processor that used Ctrl+Letter key combinations to navigate through the document. WordStar was created at a time when most keyboards did not yet have separate arrow key blocks. Note that many of these navigation keys conflict with standard Windows shortcut keys. E.g. Ctrl+S is the standard Windows shortcut for File|Save. In WordStar, Ctrl+S moves the text cursor one position to the left, just like the left arrow key.

You can enable the WordStar navigation keys in the Keyboard Preferences. When enabled, they are recognized by every full text editor control in EditPad, such as the main editor, the search box, the replace box, the clip editor, etc.

The shortcuts with Ctrl+Q are two-key combinations. First, press Ctrl+Q. Then release the Q key and press the second letter in the key combination. Whether you press Ctrl along with the second key or not makes no difference.

Cursor navigation keys

Ctrl+S moves the text cursor one position to the left.
Ctrl+D moves the text cursor one position to the right.
Ctrl+E moves the text cursor one line upward.
Ctrl+X moves the text cursor one line downward.
Ctrl+A moves the text cursor to the start of the previous word or the end of the previous line, whichever is closer.
Ctrl+F moves the text cursor to the start of the next line or the end of the current line, whichever is closer.
Ctrl+R moves the text cursor up an entire screen.
Ctrl+C moves the text cursor down an entire screen.

Ctrl+W scrolls down one line. Cursor moves up one line unless it is already at the top (configurable).
Ctrl+Z scrolls up one line. Cursor moves down one line unless it is already at the top (configurable).

Ctrl+Q, S moves the text cursor to the beginning of the line (configurable).
Ctrl+Q, D moves the text cursor to the end of the line.

Ctrl+Q, E moves the text cursor to the top of the screen.
Ctrl+Q, X moves the text cursor to the bottom of the screen.
Ctrl+Q, R moves the text cursor to the start of the file.
Ctrl+Q, C moves the text cursor to the end of the file.

Editing commands

Ctrl+I inserts a tab character.
Ctrl+N inserts a line break.

Ctrl+G deletes the character to the right of the text cursor.
Ctrl+H deletes the character to the left of the text cursor.
Ctrl+T deletes the part of the current word to the right of the text cursor. If the cursor is not on a word, all characters to the right of the cursor up to the start of the next word are deleted.
Ctrl+Q, Y deletes all the text on the current line to the right of the text cursor.
Ctrl+Q, T deletes all the text on the current line to the left of the text cursor.

Ctrl+V toggles between insert and overwrite mode.