exaEdit can have several workfiles at the same time, the number of them is not restricted (except, of course, the case that the main memory is not large enough).
Every workfile has its own name, which consists of eight letters or numerals and begins with a letter.
The first (or only) workfile in a exaEdit session is labelled
MAINYou may spell workfile names in capital or small letters, which is not distinguished by the program. exaEdit always displays workfile names in capital letters.
The workfile name is displayed in the status line (i.e. the last line in your window) in columns 5 to 11 and in the top line of the workfile (top line, compare next paragraph).
The workfile does not only contain the actual data but also the so-called
You could imagine this as a fictitious 0 record which only exists to designate the beginning of your workfile. The top line is displayed in the window but it does not exist in the file on the disk since it is only created when the data are loaded and it is not written when the data is saved to the data medium.
Some commands treat the top line as a normal data line, which is not changeable, by the way.
To create and delete workfiles, and to switch from one workfile to another, you use the command
workfileThere can only be one current workfile at one time, which is the inly visible one on the window and to which any given command refers. But it is possible to copy data from one workfile to another.
If you prefer to see two or more workfiles at the same time, you cannot do this with one single exaEdit session; you need two or more windows or screens.