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Contents

• Preface
• Survey
  • How to Get exaEdit.
  • A Short History
  • The Concepts
    • The workfile
    • Window Mode and Line Mode
    • The Current Line
    • Input
    • Keyboard Usage
    • Command Syntax
  • Additional Features
    • Editing Directories
    • Programmability
    • Profile Files
    • Fail Behaviour
• First Steps
  • Prerequisites
    • For Unix systems
    • For Windows systems
  • Some Editor Logic
  • For Your Orientation
  • Creating a File
  • Upper and Lower Case, Abbreviations
  • Keys to Delete and Insert Characters
  • Editing a File That Already Exists
  • Changing Data Directly
  • How to Quit exaEdit
  • Current Line, Positioning
  • Inserting Lines
  • Deleting Lines
  • Copying Lines
  • Moving Lines
  • Searching Data
  • Changing Data
  • Help
  • An Important Command
• The Editor and Its Commands
  • Functions
    • Starting an exaEdit Session
    • Workfiles
    • Loading a File
      • Loading in the Normal Case
      • Loading a File via DD-Names
      • Files with Special Record Formats
      • Parameters for Large Files
      • Loading All Files of a Directory
    • Saving a File
    • Leaving exaEdit
    • Structure and Input of Commands
    • Concatenating Commands, Command Separator
    • Presentation in the Window, Current Line
    • Record Numbers
    • Deleting and Inserting of Characters
    • Setting Of and Going To Markers
    • Positioning
    • Leafing Through the File
    • Searching
    • Changing Data, Survey
      • Direct Changes
      • Commands
      • Prefix Commands
      • Sequence of Processing
    • Deleting Lines
    • Inserting Lines
    • Features of the Input Mode
      • Automatic Indenting
      • Automatic Linebreak
    • Editing Blocks
    • The Line Mode
    • Programming the Editor
    • Command Storage
    • Programmable Function Keys
    • Command Sequences in the workfile: EXEC
    • The Parameter Variables
    • The Profile Files
    • Online Help
    • The Keyboard
    • Keyboard Test
    • exaEdit Functions
    • Inserting Record Numbers
    • exaEdit Errors
    • exaEdit Tests
  • The Commands
    • Notation
    • Messages
    • The Commands in Detail
      • + (plus sign)
      • - (minus sign)
      • _ (underscore)
      • & (ampersand)
      • ALIGN
      • BACK
      • BOTTOM
      • CALL
      • CASE
      • CCOPY
      • CDELETE
      • CHANGE
      • CMDSEP
      • CMOVE
      • CODEPAGE
      • COMPRESS
      • CONCAT
      • COPY
      • COUNT
      • DELETE
      • DELETEL
      • DISPLAY
      • DL
      • DOWN
      • END
      • EXEC
      • EXPAND
      • FILE
      • FILL
      • HELP
      • HEXA
      • INDENT
      • INLENGTH
      • INPUT
      • INSMODE
      • KEYBOARD
      • LANGUAGE
      • LOAD
      • LOCATE
      • LWWIDTH
      • MANUAL
      • MOVE
      • NEXT
      • NLOCATE
      • NRLOCATE
      • PFK
      • POINT
      • PROFILE
      • QUIT
      • REKEY
      • REPLACE
      • RETURN
      • RLOCATE
      • RNLOCATE
      • SCOPE
      • SEQUENCE
      • SET
      • SKEY
      • SORT
      • SSPLIT
      • TEST
      • TOP
      • TRANSLAT
      • UP
      • WF
      • WIDTH
      • WORKFILE
      • WRAP
      • X
      • Y
      • ZONE
  • The Prefix Commands
• exaEdit Synopsis
• The exaEdit Messages
• Index