Command
Qedit accepts two basic types of commands: those such as Add, Change and Text that can be combined on a line using semicolon to separate them; and those such as File and Listf which can only appear once on a command line because semicolon is reserved for separating parameters.
/text abc;modify 5 {two Qedit commands}
/file abc;rec=-56;disc=10 {one MPE command}
/new abc;listf abc {Qedit and mpe command}
We call the first style “qedit” commands and the second style “mpe” commands, although they are all equally Qedit commands. With the first style, the command name can usually be abbreviated to one letter (Add is A), although some commands require several letters (Findu for Findup). With the “mpe” style, the command name must usually be spelled out completely (e.g., Listf), although some commands do have short forms (Seg for Segmenter, the F7 key for Listredo).
/vi {“vi” means Visual}
/c "abc"xxx" all {“c” means Change}
/run $oldpass;maxdata=1000
/ru ;m 10000 {short form okay in Qedit}
Because the syntax rules vary for these two styles of commands, we show the “mpe” commands in the manual with a colon (:). This does not mean that you need to type a colon with those commands – Qedit will recognize 99% of them without a colon (as long as there is not a “qedit” command with the same name!)