Edit Several Files at Once
The temporary file called “Qeditscr” is Qedit’s primary scratch file. Whenever you use the default options for Opening or Texting a file, your work will be in the Qeditscr scratch file.
How to Edit Several Files?
What if you want to edit two or more files, and copy lines between them? You could Text the first file, Hold the selected lines, Keep your changes, then Text the second file and insert the lines. However, if you are doing a large number of edits, the constant Text and Keep operations are inconvenient.
A faster method is to Text each file into an extra scratch file of its own. Then use the “Open ?” or the “Open *-n” command to switch quickly between them. By default, Text always copies the file into the Qeditscr scratch file. However, Qedit can supply up to eight extra scratch files. To Text a file called abcd into an extra scratch file, type:
/text abcd,new
When you Exit, Qedit checks whether you have any unsaved edits in any of your extra scratch files. If there are some unsaved edits, Qedit prompts you to “Discard?” them or to stay in Qedit to save them with the Keep command.
Starting a New Scratch File
Sometimes you start editing a new document and have nothing to Text to create the extra scratch file. In this case, use the New command without parameters.
/new
A new extra scratch file is created and assigned a sequential number (1,2,3…). If you use the Open ? command, you would see “Extra Scratch file #2″ in the list of files. If you do a Keep or Set Keep Name, you would then see the Keep file as the Text name in Open ?.