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• Welcome to Qedit
  • Introduction
  • Documentation
    • User Manual
    • Change Notice
    • Printed Documentation
    • Online Documentation in HTML Help Format
    • CD or Web Download
  • Other Documentation
    • Printdoc Program
    • Other Manuals of Interest
  • Customer Support
  • Robelle Newsletter
  • QLIB and Bonus Contributed Software
  • Notation
  • New to Qedit 5.7
• Installing Qedit
  • General Installation Notes
    • Who Should Use These Instructions?
    • Summary of Installation Steps
    • Qedit Compiler Interfaces
    • Important Note About Passwords
    • STREAMX Users
  • Step 1: Install Qedit
  • Step 2: Install QLIB and Bonus Programs
    • Building the Spell Dictionary
  • Step 3: Install NM Compiler Interface
    • Installing the Interface
    • Compiling Instructions
  • Step 4: Install CM Compiler Interface
    • Choosing a CM Installation Method
    • Integrating CM Compiler Changes
    • Isolating CM Compiler Changes
  • Step 5: Saving Disc Space
    • Purging Obsolete Files
    • Minimal Set of Files
  • Moving Qedit to Another Account
    • Moving All the Files
    • Redirecting the File Names
    • Moving a "Hooked" Qedit
    • Running the MPEXHOOKed Qedit
  • Removing the Compiler Interface
    • Removing the NM Interface
    • Removing the Integral CM Interface
    • Removing the Isolated CM Interface
• Getting a Quick Start with HP Full-Screen Editing
  • Introduction
  • Starting Visual Mode
  • Screen Layout
    • Home Line
    • Status Line
    • Text Lines
    • Template Line
    • Special Indicator Columns
  • Using Your Keyboard
    • Moving the Cursor
    • Editing the Text Lines
    • Control Functions
    • Reflection for DOS Keyboards
    • Other PC Keyboards
  • Function Keys
    • F1: Update and Go to Next Page
    • F2: Roll Up Screen
    • F3: Findup - Previous String
    • F4: Find - Next String
    • F5: Backward One Page
    • F6: Forward One Page
    • F7: Execute a Command
    • F8: Exit from Visual
  • Browsing Through Your File
  • Cut-and-Paste
    • Cutting Operations
    • Pasting Operations
    • Resetting Cut-and-Paste
    • Copying a Block of Text
    • Cut-and-Paste Between Files
    • Dividing and Gluing Operations
    • Dividing Lines in Visual Mode
    • Gluing Lines in Visual Mode
    • Excluding Lines From Visual Mode Display
    • Justifying Lines in Visual Mode
    • Renumbering Lines
    • Inserting Blank Lines
    • Hold Files
    • Marking Changes Without Using Line Numbers
    • Paste from a Non-Qedit File
  • Home Line Commands
    • Finding Strings
    • Changing Strings
    • Help on Visual Mode
    • Compile, Link, and Run
    • Formatting Paragraphs
    • Undoing Changes in Visual Mode
    • Refreshing the Screen
    • Other Line Mode Commands
    • Truncated Home Line
    • Exit from Visual
• Getting a Quick Start with Line Mode Editing
  • Introduction
  • Adding Lines to a File
  • Looking at the File
  • Browsing the File
  • Searching the File
  • Editing Lines
  • Global Changes
  • Copying Lines
  • Moving Lines
  • Deleting Lines
  • Help Command
  • Saving the File
  • Open and Shut for Instant Access
• Running Qedit under MPE
  • Introduction
  • Edit in Line Mode or in Full-Screen Mode
  • Edit Several Files at Once
  • Qeditmgr Configuration Files
    • Limiting Compile Priority
    • Default Set Commands
  • Using Qedit in Batch
  • Summary of Parm= Values
    • From the Posix Shell
  • Exit and Entry Options
    • Exit with Verify
    • Info= First File to Edit
    • Random Name for Primary Scratch File
    • "Discard Changes?" on Exit
    • Info= "-p 99" Specifies Parm Value
    • Info= "-c cmdstring"
    • Parm 512 to Edit a Single File
    • Info= An Empty File to Fill
    • Info= Temporary File
    • Info= Can Create New Files
    • Parm Values to Suspend or Not
    • Info= Commands Only
    • Basicentry Option
  • JCWs That Drive Qedit
    • RCRTMODEL JCW
      • Type 1234 Terminal or Emulator
    • RPCVERSION JCW
    • RCRTWIDTH JCW
    • RCRTSTRAPSGH for Handshaking
    • RLABELDEFAULT JCW
    • QEDITMGRTRACE JCW
    • QEDPARMBITS JCW
    • QEDCURWFILE Variable
    • QEDSTOREDPWD and QEDPROMPTEDPWD Variables
• Qedit for Microsoft Windows
  • Introduction
  • Server Process
    • Logon Sequence
    • QEDSERVMODE JCW
  • Log Files
• Qedit Issues and Solutions
  • Running Qedit with Reflection
    • RPCVERSION JCW
    • Using a Command File to Start Up
    • Alt-Y vs. :Reflect
    • Qedit and Reflection File Transfers
    • Form Feed Causing Return/Line Feed
    • Typeahead and Visual Mode
    • Completion Codes
    • Controlling the PC
    • Accidental Exit from Reflection
    • Changing the Exit Keystroke
  • Running Qedit in MPE/iX
    • Unresolved Externals on MPE/iX 4.0
    • Compiling on MPE/iX
    • XDB: the Symbolic Debugger
    • Command Files and Variables
    • Visual Mode
    • EOF vs. LIMIT
    • Disc Space for Files and Xltrim
    • Extents
  • Qedit as the HPDesk Editor
    • Configuring HPDesk
    • Configuring Qedit in HPDesk
    • DeskQed
  • Getting Programs to Read Qedit Files
    • Qinput
    • Qcompxl
    • Qeditaccess Subroutine
    • Qedify
    • Qedify and $Include
  • Editing Wide Files
    • Using the New Command
    • Using the Text Command
  • Lines, Strings and Ranges
• Using Qedit with MPE Programming Languages
  • Introduction
  • Editerr: Trapping Compiler Errors
    • Limitations and Restrictions
  • Linking PowerHouse with Qedit
    • Invoking PowerHouse from Qedit
    • Configuring Qedit as Your Editor
    • Editing PowerHouse Subfiles
  • COBOL
    • Selecting a Compiler
    • Sequence Numbers and Comments
    • Tagging Source Changes
    • Copylib Members
    • Trapping Syntax Errors
  • FORTRAN
  • Pascal
  • C Language
  • SPL
  • TRANSACT
  • RPG
  • BASIC
  • Segmenter
• Common Uses of Qedit
  • Introduction
  • Qedit as Word Processor
    • QNote UDC for Occasional Memos
    • Justify Capability
    • Check Spelling
    • Prose: A Text Processor
    • Using TDP from within Qedit
  • Qedit as a File Utility
    • Sorting a Range of Lines
    • Searching Groups of Files for Strings
    • Editing Data Files
    • Editing Program Files
  • Qedit as an Operations Tool
    • Editing Stream Files
    • Native-Mode Output Spool Files
    • Editing Bells, Tabs and Escapes
    • Aborting All Users to Back Up
• Qedit Commands
  • Introduction
  • General Notes
    • Abbreviations
    • Uppercase or Lowercase
    • Multiple Commands per Line
    • Comments on Command Lines
    • STREAMX Warning
    • Stopping Commands with Control-Y
    • Implicit Commands
    • Function Keys
    • Command Files and UDCs
    • MPE Commands
    • Differences from MPE
    • Calculator Commands
    • QEDITCOUNT JCW
    • QEDCURWFILE Variable
    • External Program Commands
  • :Activate Command [AC/:A]
  • Add Command [A]
    • Add (Adding New Lines)
    • Add (Adding a String as a Line)
    • Add (Copying Lines within a File)
    • Add (Moving Lines within a File)
    • Add (Copying Lines Between Files)
  • Append Command [AP]
  • Backward Command [BA/F5]
  • Before Command [B]
  • :Beginfile and :Endfile Commands
  • Change Command [C]
    • Change (Changing Strings)
    • Change (Changing Columns)
  • Close Command [CL]
  • Colcopy Command [COL]
  • Colmove Command [COLM]
  • :Compile Command [CO/:C]
  • Delete Command [D]
  • Destroy Command [DES/:D]
  • :Display Command [DISPLAY]
  • Divide Command [DI]
  • :Do Command [DO]
  • :Editerror Command [EDITERROR]
  • :Escape Command [ESCAPE]
  • Exit Command [E/F8]
  • Find Command [F/F4]
  • Findup Command [FINDU/F3]
  • Form Command [FORM]
  • Forward Command [FO/F6]
  • Garbage Command [GAR]
  • Glue Command [G]
  • Help Command [H/?]
  • Hold Command [HO]
  • :If, :Endif, :Else, :Elseif Commands
  • Justify Command [J]
  • Keep Command [K]
  • :Kill Command [KI/:K]
  • List Command [L]
  • :Listredo Command [LISTREDO/F7]
  • :Listundo Command [LISTU]
  • Lsort Command [LS]
  • Merge Command [ME]
  • Modify Command [M]
  • New Command [N]
  • Open Command [O]
  • :Pause Command [PAUSE]
  • :Prep Command [PREP/:P]
  • Proc Command [P]
  • Q Command [Q]
  • /Qedit Command
  • :Qhelp Command [QHELP]
  • :Redo Command [REDO]
  • :Reflect Command [REFLECT]
  • Renumber Command [REN]
  • Replace Command [R]
  • :Return Command [RETURN]
  • :Run Command [RU/:R]
  • Run, Implied
  • :Segmenter Command [SEG/:S]
  • Set Command [S]
    • Account
    • Alias
      • Function Key
      • Ignorecase
      • Trace
      • Remove
      • Reset
    • Autocont
    • Check
    • Decimal
    • DL size
    • Editinput
    • Expandtabs
    • Extentsize
    • Extprog
    • Filename
    • FORTRAN
    • HFS
    • Halfbright
    • Hints
    • Hppath
    • Increment
    • Interactive
    • Justify
    • Keep
    • Language
    • Left
    • Length
    • Lib
    • Limits
    • List
    • Maxdata
    • Modify
    • Open
    • Pattern
    • Priority
    • Prompt
    • Redo
    • Right
    • RL file name
    • Shift
    • Spell
    • Statistics
    • Stringdelimiters
    • Suspend
    • Tabs
    • Term
    • Text
    • Totals
    • UDC
    • Undo
    • Varsub
    • Visual
      • Above
      • ATtachmate
      • Bell
      • Below
      • Buf
      • Carry
      • Cleardisplay
      • Cutcurrent
      • Editonopen
      • Esc
      • Field
      • Halfbright
      • Hidetags
      • Home
      • Hostprompt
      • Ignorelf
      • Inschar
      • Label
      • Marginfixed
      • Msg
      • Renum
      • Roll
      • Save
      • Screen
      • SI
      • SO
      • Scrollup
      • Stop
      • Tab
      • TAE
      • Update
      • Widen
      • Wordwrap
      • XX
      • Labels in Line Mode
    • Warnings
    • Whichcomp
    • Window
    • Work
    • Wraparound
    • X
    • YNone
    • Zip
  • Shut Command [SH]
  • Spell Command [SP]
  • :Stream Command [STREAM]
  • :Tdpfinal and :Tdpdraft Commands
  • Text Command [T]
  • Undo Command [UN]
  • Up Command [UP/F2]
  • Use Command [U]
  • Verify Command [V]
  • Visual Command [VI/F1]
  • :While and :Endwhile Commands
  • Words Command [W]
  • :Xltrim Command [XLTRIM]
  • Zave Command [Z]
  • ZZ Command
  • User Defined Commands
  • Command Files
  • Calculator Command [=]
  • POSIX Commands [!]
• Troubleshooting and Error Messages
  • Introduction
  • Messages
  • System Errors
  • Quit Errors
  • Errors in Visual
    • Using Visual with X.25
    • Using Visual on MPE/iX
    • Accidental Invocation of MPE/iX CI
    • Using Visual on HP-UX
    • Terminals Supported by Visual
    • Problems with 700/9x Terminals
    • Visual Error Messages
  • Analyzing Compiler Problems
    • QCOMPXLTRACE JCW
    • Control-Y and NM Compiles
    • How to Bypass Qcompxl
    • Problems with HP's C Compiler
    • Unresolved External Reference
    • Illegal Characters
    • Pascal/V Compiler Stack Overflow
• File Formats
  • Introduction
  • Qedit Workfiles
  • Original Format Workfiles
  • Jumbo Workfiles
  • External Files
  • Error Files for Editerror
    • Prefix Characters & Data
• User Routines
  • Introduction
  • Wide Lines and User Procedures
  • "Init" Interface Procedure
  • "Com" Interface Procedure
  • "Add" Interface Procedure
  • "Exit" Interface Procedure
  • Installing Your Interface Procedures
  • Alternate Activation
  • The Modify User Hook
  • Writing a User Procedure
  • DL Space
  • Passing Procspace Values
  • Communication Flags for User Code
• Qcopy
  • Introduction
  • Accessing Qcopy
  • Qcopy Documentation
• Qedit-Compatible Software Tools
  • Introduction
  • Compare/iX
  • OMNIDEX
  • Adager
  • CCS - Corporate Computer Systems
  • Reflection
  • ROBOT
  • PowerHouse
  • Splash for Native-Mode SPL
  • Documentation/3000
  • Prose Text Formatter
  • Spell: Spelling Checker
  • Qhelp Help System
  • TRANSACT
  • MPEX and STREAMX
  • SCOMPARE and ANALYZER
  • Xpedit Full-Screen Editor
  • Nuggets
  • Fantasia
  • TDP
  • Network Engine
• Regular Expressions
  • Introduction
  • Metacharacters
  • Character Class
  • Escape Character
  • Escaped Sequences in Regular Expressions
  • Backreferences in Regular Expressions
  • Escaped Characters in Replacement String
• Qedit Glossary
  • Introduction
  • Terms
    • Abbreviating
    • Batch
    • Calculator
    • Column
    • Command
    • Control Character
    • Copylib Members
    • CRT
    • Current Line
    • Defaults
    • External File
    • File Names
    • Full-Screen Editing
    • Hold File
    • J Option
    • Jumbo Files
    • Keep File
    • Language
    • Left
    • Length
    • Line
    • Linenum
    • Looping
    • Margins
    • Member
    • Memory Lock
    • MPE Command
    • Patterns
    • Procedure
    • Qeditscr
    • Quiet-Q Option
    • Range
    • Rangelist
    • Relative Line Numbers
    • Right
    • Shifting
    • Size
    • Spool Files
    • $Stdin / $Stdinx
    • $Stdlist
    • String
    • Tab
    • Template-T Option
    • UDC
    • Visual Editing
    • Window
    • Workfile
  • Special Characters
    • ? Means Help, Nonprinting Characters, Alphanumeric (in Patterns) or Optional (in Regexp)
    • $ Means Hex, Standard File, Memory Lock, List Option, Previous File or End-Of-Line (in Regexp)
    • ^ Means Findup, Control-Char, Start-of-line (in Regexp) or Negate (in Regexp)
    • . Means Nonprinting, Reset, Decimal Point or Any Character (in Regexp)
    • ! Means Posix Command or Too Long
    • % Means Octal or String
    • * Means Current, Refresh, Multiply or Quantifier (in Regexp)
    • \ Means Previous, String, Literal Match (in Regexp) or Special Characters (in Regexp)
    • / Means Prompt, Range Delimiter, Stop, Exit, or Divide
    • [ Means FIRST, [default] or Start Class (in Regexp)
    • ] Means LAST or End Class (in Regexp)
    • { } Are for Comments or Indentation
    • @ Means ALL
    • & Means Literal Match or Continue MPE Command
    • : Means MPE or String
    • ; Means Multiple Commands
    • , Means a List
    • = Means Copy or Calculate
    • " Means String
    • ( Means Start Parameter, Member, Command or Subpattern (in Regexp)
    • ) Means End Parameter, Member, Command or Subpattern (in Regexp)
    • + Means Ahead Some Lines, Add or Quantifier (in Regexp)
    • - Means Back Some Lines, Minus or Range (in Regexp)
    • # Means Numeric Pattern, Spool File or Previous Result
    • ~ Means Spaces (Pattern), Recent Page or Field
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