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From: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Questions about KEDIT
Message-ID: <142@bmers58.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 89 20:11:46 GMT
References: <2142@csuna.csun.edu>
Reply-To: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <2142@csuna.csun.edu> abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura) writes:
>I'd like to know from those of you who have tried KEDIT, I have a few
>questions : 
>
>--  Does it support features like marking blocks to be hidden ?
>--  What kind of pattern matching does it use for search/replace ?
>--  Does it support things like setting the display to be hex ?
>    (hmm... now that I think about this one, I can't remember if XEDIT
>    was the editor that had it or if I had that when I was using
>    the WYLBUR environment)
>--  Does it support the prefix columns, and can you move it to either
>    right or left as in IBM XEDIT ?
>--  Does it support multiple windows ?  Can it split the screen both
>    vertically and horizontally ?
>--  Does it come with a REXX interpreter, or does it have to be
>    purchased separately ?  If I don't have a REXX interpeter already
>    and I need to purchase one separately, does that mean that I won't
>    be able to write macro programs ?

YES to all of the above.

KEDIT comes with a subset of REXX as a built-in macro language.  Can do most
things, but sometimes the hard way (they want you to buy REXX).  

Pattern matching is same as XEDIT, meaning options for VARiable BLANKs,
and wildcards for single/multiple characters, and the funny ANCHOR thing for
column dependancies.  Not as good as regexp but easy and effective.

Also includes the famous 'ALL' command, and full implementation of display/scope
selection levels.  A GREAT editor!!   all functions can be mapped to any keys
you like, in addition to the built-in XEDIT commands.


I like it!

-Mark