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From: swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Questions about KEDIT
Message-ID: <-286529989@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 89 17:40:21 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Re: Questions about KEDIT

>>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 ?

Lines can be hidden from display and revealed selectively.
This is handy with structured code.  The bodies of "if" blocks
can be hidden leaving only the "if" (or "else" or "while", etc) statement
visible so, that you can better appreciate the block structure of
your program code.

>>--  What kind of pattern matching does it use for search/replace ?

A bit weak here.  Does string matching within specified column boundaries,
going forward or backward.  Very limited wildcard patterns.

>>--  Does it support things like setting the display to be hex ?

You can display hex, or a mixture of ascii and hex on the same line.

>>--  Does it support the prefix columns, and can you move it to either
>>    right or left as in IBM XEDIT ?

Yes, indeed.

>>--  Does it support multiple windows ?  Can it split the screen both
>>    vertically and horizontally ?

Yes, indeed, again.

>>--  Does it come with a REXX interpreter, or does it have to be
>>    purchased separately ?  

It comes with a stripped down REXX interpreter named KEXX.  It's quite 
powerful nevertheless.  If you want, you can make KEDIT use the full
REXX product.

Me?  I'm just a satisfied user.