hmmm, I've got QEdit 5.4 on MPE 6.0, but it doesn't work for me.
Could it be a forgotten (on my part) SET command that you have
in a QeditMGR file?

/use k
/input xx;prompt="Input:"
Input:abc
/echo !xx
abc
/echo

//l[/
    1        xyz
    2        xyz
    3        xyz
    4        xyz
    5        xyz
/echo

//c1"!xx"@
    1     !xx   xyz
    2     !xx   xyz
    3     !xx   xyz
    4     !xx   xyz
    5     !xx   xyz
5 lines changed
/echo

//l[/
    1     !xx   xyz
    2     !xx   xyz
    3     !xx   xyz
    4     !xx   xyz
    5     !xx   xyz
/v@
QEDIT/iX (Version 5.4)    QEDIT.PUB.ROBELLE Parm=3  Set ACcount ROBELLE


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