exaEdit Synopsis

Please, note the different font faces in the following text.

Commands are written in equidistant font with capital and small letters. The capital letters of a command word mark its minimal abbreviation. Of course, you may enter the commands in either small or capital letters, as you like.

Italic (equidistant) font is used for parts of a command (name, numbers character strings etc.). You have to replace these parts with your own characters.

Square brackets [ ] enclose optional specifications; you decide whether you use or omit them.

Browsing

• Keys page and page browse 1 page.
• Keys F7 and F8 browse 1 page.
• Keys F10 and F11 browse 1/2 page.

Changing the command separator

• Command CMDsep ...

Changing the display

• Command HEXa to show current line in hexadecimal form.
• Command CODepage (with parameters) for German special characters in Windows operating systems.
• Command LWwidth n for manipulating the line break of long records.
• Command SKey n to set the width of the number area.
• Command SCope OFF|ON to switch between window mode and line mode.

Changing the language

• Command LAnguage ...

Concatenating two records

• Command CONcat

Counting records

• Command COUnt num1 [num2].
• also see total number of lines in status line.

Deleting a record

• Prefix command d deletes the record of the marked line.
• Command DElete deletes the record of the current line.
• Command DL num1 deletes the record with the number num1.

Deleting a workfile

• Command WF wfname Del

Deleting all records of a workfile

• Command DElete All

Deleting several records

• Prefix command dn deletes n records starting with the record of the current line.
• Prefix command dd deletes the area of records labelled with it.
• Command DElete nnn deletes nnn records starting with the record of the current line.
• Command DL num1 num2 deletes the records from num1 to num2.

Doubling a record

• If the record is in the current line, simply COpy will suffice.

Exchanging two records

• If the current line shows the second record, the command Move p will suffice.

Inserting an empty line

• Command SSplit generates an empty line before the current line.
• Command SSplit n with sufficiently large n creates an empty line after the current line.
• Command Input // generates an empty line after the current line.
• Switch to the insert mode and enter a line that only contains an empty space.

Line to be deleted

• Compare `deleting a record'

Lines to be deleted

• Compare `deleting all records of a workfile'
• Compare `deleting several records'

Line to be inserted

• Command INPUT /input/.
• Enter the Input mode (command Input), hit Enter twice after having written a line.

Record to be deleted

• Prefix command d deletes the record of the marked line
• Command DElete deletes the record of the current line.
• Command DL num1 deletes the record with the number num1.

Records to be deleted

• Prefix command dn deletes n records starting at the record of the current line.
• Prefix command dd deletes the area of the marked with it.
• Command DElete nnn deletes nnn records starting with the record of the current line.
• Command DL num1 num2 deletes the records from num1 to num2.

Records to be concatenated

• Command CONCAT concatenates the record of the current line with the following one.

Sorting all or some records

• Command SORT (possibly with parameters).

Splitting a record

• Command SSplit

Tabulator sign to be removed

• Command EXPAND expands the tab signs to space signs in the specified records.

Tabulator sign to be set

• Command COMPRESS compresses adequate sequences of spaces to tab signs in the specified records.

View help texts

• Command Help shows all available commands.
• Command Help cmd gives a short help about cmd.
• Command Manual shows the complete exaEdit-manual.