Leonard Berkowitz writse:

> Glenn Cole compares:
>
> <</set short;w;fq "STRING";l>> with the list command in Qedit. A shorter
> form of this command would be:
>
>   /set short;w flag;l "STRING"

Okay.  (Has /LIST "STRING" always been there??  I never knew that syntax.)
But I see I missed something more important:

> This can be encapsulated in the following USE file:
>
>   Q "Enter string without quotes"
>   Z::=
>   SET SHORT
>   SET TIME=500

(What a hassle, but I guess I understand the need for assistance in
preventing infinite loops.)

>   FINDQ FIRST
[snip]

D-oh!  That's the one I forgot!

> Does Qedit have any looping ability (/WHILE of Edit3000)?

In fact it does, though not interactively.  That is, its looping ability
is the *MPE* :while command, but it must be placed in a command file.

While it's certainly less convenient to have to use a command file for this,
the benefit is in being able to mix Qedit commands in with MPE commands.
This turns out to be VERY powerful.

--Glenn

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