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^^MOVE ABSOLUTE This function is accessible only with a mouse. When you click the <MLB> in the any text window, the text cursor will be moved to the location of the mouse pointer. ^^MOVE TOP Positions the cursor to the first line of the buffer, scrolling or repaint- ing the screen as necessary. pEDIT keeps all text in memory, making it very fast to move to the top of the buffer from any point in the buffer. ^^MOVE BOTTOM Moves the cursor to the dummy last line at the end of the buffer. The screen will scroll or repaint as required. ^^MOVE HOME The action of MOVE HOME depends on the position of the cursor within the current line. If the cursor is not at the beginning of a line, it will move there. If it is at the start of a line, it will wrap to the start of the previous line. This command is normally bound to the <Home> key. ^^MOVE END The action of MOVE END depends on the position of the cursor within the current line. If the cursor is not at the end of the line, it will move there. If it is at the end of a line, it will wrap to the end of the next line. Normally bound to the <End> key. ^^MOVE UP Moves the cursor up one line in the current buffer. There can be no action if the cursor is already on the first line of the buffer. pEDIT keeps the cursor as close as possible to the same column. This command is normally bound to the <Up> key. ^^MOVE DOWN Moves the cursor down one line in the current buffer. The cursor cannot move if it is already on the dummy last line of the buffer. pEDIT keeps the cur- sor as close as possible to the same column. This command is normally bound to the <Down> key. ^^MOVE LEFT Moves the cursor left one character position. If the cursor is at the begin- ning of a line, it will wrap to the end of the previous line. Normally bound to the <Left> key. ^^MOVE RIGHT Moves the cursor right one character position. If the cursor is at the end of a line, it will wrap to the beginning of the next line. This command is normally bound to the <Right> key. ^^MOVE WORD Moves the cursor to the beginning of the next word in the current direction. If the direction is Forward, it will move toward the end of the buffer; if Reverse, toward the beginning of the buffer. The screen will either scroll or repaint depending on the state of Select. If Select is active, the screen will be redisplayed. If Select is not active, scrolling will take place to keep the cursor on the fourth line from the top or bottom of the window. ^^INSERT CHAR This is the default when one of the typing keys is pressed. In Insert mode, the character will be inserted into the buffer at the current cursor position; text to the right of the cursor is "shoved over" to make room. In Overstrike mode, the character is simply overwritten. pEDIT uses automatic word wrap to keep text between the defined margins as you type. If a word will not fit inside the current right margin, it will be moved to the start of the next line. The first line of a paragraph will be automatically indented if this parameter has been set via the SET PINDENT command. When the Tab key is pressed, the cursor will move to the next tab stop. Only standard tab stops at every eighth column are currently supported. Other control characters are displayed as the ASCII symbol. ^^OPEN LINE Opens up a new (empty) line for text insertion. The end result is the same as pressing <Enter> followed by <Left> except that no indenting will take place. ^^FILL PARA Reformats a paragraph or portion of a paragraph to fit within the defined margins, resulting in a ragged right margin. Paragraph indenting is honored for the first line. Tabs are ignored. Use this command after you have inserted or deleted text or changed margins. The SET MARGINS and SET PINDENT commands are used to set the text margins and paragraph indent, respectively. Reformatting begins at the current line and stops at the end of the paragraph. A pararaph is defined as contiguous text bounded by empty lines both above and below. ^^JUSTIFY PARA Fully justifies a paragraph or portion of a paragraph to fit within the defined margins, resulting in both smooth left and right margins. Paragraph indent is normally not used with justified text but is honored if set. Tabs are ignored. Text is not automatically justified as you type; this command is meant to be used to justify paragraphs after they have been entered. The SET MARGINS command is used to set the left and right margins. Reformat- ting begins at the current line and stops at the end of the paragraph. A paragraph is defined as contiguous text bounded by empty lines both above and below. ^^INDENT This function is very useful in programming when you want to indent a sec- tion of code in or out without having to manually edit each line. Indenting is by levels where one level is 4 character positions or one-half a tab stop. INDENT uses tabs and spaces to indent the line to the desired offset. To use INDENT (1) position the cursor to the start of the first line, (2) toggle Select on, (3) highlight the entire range of lines to be indented and (4) issue the "INDENT" or "INDENT n" command. Specify the number of levels (n) as an integer - positive indents to the right, negative to the left. ^^AUTO INDENT This function is very useful in programming. It is used to automatically indent a new line the same as the current line. pEDIT uses the same leading whitespace (spaces and tabs) as the current line. AUTO INDENT is normally used at the end of a line but the command can be issued anywhere. Normally bound to <Ctrl-Enter>. ^^LEFT LINE Aligns the current line (the line the cursor is on) flush with the left margin. Only spaces are used to move the line to the appropriate offset. ^^CENTER LINE Centers the current line (the line the cursor is on) between the defined margins. Only spaces are used to move the line to the appropriate offset. ^^RIGHT LINE Adjusts the current line (the line the cursor is on) to be flush with the right margin. Only spaces are used to move the line to the appropriate off- set. ^^CAPITAL WORD Capitalizes the current word starting at the current position within the word. The capitalization does not start at the beginning of the word; this is to allow, for example, 'Compuserve' to be changed to 'CompuServe'. ^^LOWER WORD Converts the current word to lowercase starting at the current position within the word. All characters from the cursor to the end of the word will be changed to lowercase. ^^UPPER WORD Converts the current word to uppercase. All characters from the cursor to the end of the word will be changed to uppercase. ^^QUOTE CHAR This function is used to enter special characters into the text. pEDIT prompts with "Key code (1-255): "; at this point type in the decimal Ascii character value and press <Enter>. For example, to insert a form feed (Ctrl- L) you would enter the value 12. The feature can also be used with Find and Replace. To find a line feed (Ctrl-J) if the QUOTE CHAR key is <Ctrl-V>, press the DO COMMAND key and enter "FIND <Ctrl-V>10<Enter>". The LIST ASCII command displays the codes for all 255 characters. Extended keys such as the PC keypad and function keys cannot be quoted. The graphics characters (those above Ascii 127) cannot be entered by the very strange method of holding down the Alt key and entering the decimal value of the character on the numeric keypad. ^^TRANS CHAR Transposes (swaps) two characters of text within a line. The cursor must be on the second character when you issue the command. The cursor cannot be positioned past the end of the line. ^^ERASE CHAR Deletes the current character, i.e. the character the cursor is on. The action is dependent on the current mode. In Insert mode, the character is deleted and text to the right of the cursor is shifted left to "fill in the hole". In Overstrike mode, the character is replaced by a space. ^^ERASE PREV Deletes the previous character - the character to the left of the cursor. In Insert mode, the character is deleted and text to the right of the cursor is again shifted toward the left. In Overstrike mode, the character is replaced by a space. The command is permanently bound to the <BackSpace> key. ^^ERASE WORD Deletes text from the current position in a word to the end of the word. The current mode and direction have no effect on the action taken; deletion is always toward the end of the word. ^^ERASE LINE Erases a line or portion of a line. If the cursor is at the beginning of a line, the entire line (including the end of line marker) is erased and stored in the text buffer. If the cursor is not at the beginning of a line, deletion is from the current position to the end of the line. ^^RESTORE TEXT Restores the text last deleted by ERASE WORD or ERASE LINE. This text is stored in a special text buffer for later restoration. This text buffer is rebuilt after every action so only the last erasure can be restored. This command along with REMOVE TEXT provide an "undo" capability. It is very unlikely that anyone would ever need to "undo" hundreds of editing operat- ions. A better approach is to "Save early, save often" so you can fall back to the point of the last save. ^^FIND FIND is used to search for a text string. To initiate this function, press the FIND key and respond to "String to find", or press DO COMMAND and enter "FIND <text>". The direction of the search will be in the current direction. You can cancel an active FIND operation by pressing the ABORT key. If the target string is all lowercase, the operation will be case- insensitive; that is 'pedit' will match all of 'pedit', 'pEDIT' and 'PEDIT'. If, however, the target contains any uppercase characters, the match will be exact, i.e. 'pEDIT' matches only 'pEDIT'. Special symbols are used to match beginning of line (bol) and end of line (eol). Use '\\<' for bol and '\\>' for eol. For example, '.\\>' matches a period only if it is at the end of a line. ^^FINDNEXT Searches for the next occurrence of the last search string you specified. It is best to have FINDNEXT bound to a key so only a single key press is requir- ed to repeat the last search operation. ^^REPLACE pEDIT has a very powerful search and replace function. To initiate it, either press the REPLACE key and reply to the "Old string:" and "New string:" prompts, or press DO COMMAND and enter "REPLACE <old> <new>". pEDIT will search for each occurrence of 'old' and prompt you with "Replace (Y)es (N)o (A)ll (L)ast (Q)uit: " Y, Enter - replace this occurrence N - skip this replacement A - replace all occurrences from this point L - make this the last replacement and quit Q - quit. Matching the old string will follow the rules listed for the FIND command. The same wild cards that are useable in FIND may be specified for the 'old' string only. ^^GET FILE Loads in a file from disk for editing. pEDIT supports wildcard file specif- ications of the type '*.*' and '*.TXT'. If more than one file matches the specification, you will be presented with a list of all matching file names in alpha order. To select a file, use the arrow keys, type in the first letter, or click on it with the left mouse button. Press <Enter> or double click to load the highlighted file. Press the ABORT key to cancel. If no matching file exists, pEDIT will display "Creating file". If the file does exist, it will be loaded into memory. It is very important to realize that the file itself is still on disk and will remain unchanged unless you save a modified buffer using the WRITE FILE command. ^^INCLUDE FILE Reads in the specified file from disk and inserts it into the buffer start- ing at the current cursor location. The result is the same as if the user typed in the text contained in the file. INCLUDE FILE should be used only for relatively small files. The function uses the normal INSERT CHAR routine, not the much faster GET FILE which loads text directly into memory. ^^WRITE FILE Saves the contents of the current buffer to disk without ending the editing session. If a file name has not yet been specified, pEDIT will ask for one. pEDIT PLUS verifies that there is sufficient disk space BEFORE starting the save operation. You can change the name of the associated file at any time by using the RENAME FILE command. ^^RENAME FILE Changes the name of the disk file associated with the current buffer. The new name will be used at the time of the next WRITE FILE operation. The buffer name is also changed to reflect the new file name if that buffer name is not already in use. Use RENAME FILE when you want to save a file under a name other than the one the it was called up under. ^^SHOW BUFFER Displays detailed information about the current buffer: the buffer name, associated file name, current mode/direction, number of lines and characters of text, etc. The status line also shows the pEDIT version number. ^^BUFFER Use this command to switch between buffers. You will be presented with a BUFFER window containing the names of all buffers except the COMMAND buffer. The name of the first User buffer will be highlighted. To select a buffer, use the up and down arrow keys, type in the first letter of a buffer name or click on the name. Press <Enter> or double click to move to the selected buffer. You can also Press ABORT to cancel. ^^TRIM BUFFER This function 'trims' the current buffer by removing trailing blanks from all lines of text. TRIM BUFFER is useful in any document where a left margin has been defined. pEDIT automatically indents every line to the specified left margin, which can result in "empty" lines between paragraphs. These empty lines can take up a lot of space in a large document. ^^CHANGE MODE Used to toggle between Insert and Overstrike modes. If the mode is Insert when the command is given, it will change to Overstrike and vice versa. ^^CHANGE DIR Use this command to toggle between the Forward and Reverse directions. Note that only FIND, FINDNEXT, REPLACE and MOVE WORD use the buffer direction. ^^MARK Used to mark a particular place in a buffer so you can return to it at some later time. Sometimes called a bookmark; there can be only one marker in each buffer. pEDIT tries to stay as close as possible to the original mark as text is inserted and deleted. ^^GOTO MARK This command moves to the position (line and offset) defined by the last MARK command. ^^LINE The LINE command is used to "goto" a particular line in the current buffer. Enter "LINE nn" to move to line number nn; if you enter LINE by itself, pEDIT will prompt for a line number. ^^ONE WINDOW This function 'unsplits' the screen. If there are 2 windows on screen, the current window - the one the cursor is in - becomes the only window. The current window will occupy the full screen. The line the cursor was on when the command was issued becomes the top line of the window. ^^TWO WINDOWS 'Splits' the screen if there is only one window visible. Both windows will initially show the same number of lines of the current buffer. The cursor will be moved to the other window, anticipating that you want to load in another file. ^^OTHER WINDOW If the screen is split, this command will move the cursor to the other window. The cursor will move to the row and column stored the last time the cursor was in the window. If you have a mouse, click anywhere in the other window to move to that window. ^^PREV LINE Scrolls the current window up one line. This command is normally accessed only with a mouse, by clicking on the UpArrow symbol at the top of the Scroll Bar. ^^PREV SCREEN Moves the text window back one screen towards the beginning of the buffer. This command should be bound to the <PgUp> key as it means "Page Up". The screen is repainted rather than scrolled. ^^NEXT LINE Scrolls the current window down one line. This command is normally accessed only with a mouse, by clicking on the DownArrow symbol at the bottom of the Scroll Bar. ^^NEXT SCREEN Moves the text window forward one screen towards the end of the buffer. This command should remain bound to the <PgDn> key as it means "Page Down". Again, the screen is repainted rather than scrolled. ^^SHIFT LEFT Moves the window horizontally to the left (toward the left margin) the specified number of columns. If no parameter is specified, the shift amount will be 40 columns. ^^SHIFT RIGHT Shifts the screen horizontally to the right - toward the end of the line - by the number of columns you specify. This is to permit viewing text past column 78. If no argument is specified, the screen will be shifted 40 col- umns. The shift value is limited only by the maximum line length of 32767 characters. ^^SELECT TEXT This is a toggle that turns the select state on/off. If the state is off, it will be turned on and vice versa. Selected text is highlighted in reverse video as the cursor is moved. Select is automatically turned off after REMOVE TEXT, STORE TEXT and WIPE TEXT commands. To cancel the selection, i.e. turn the highlighting off, simply issue the command again. To select text with the mouse, move the mouse pointer to the start of the desired block. Hold the left button down for at least 1/2 second, then "drag" the mouse in any direction while continuing to hold the left button down. You can even scroll up or down while selecting by dragging the mouse pointer to the row just above or below the text window. ^^REMOVE TEXT Removes (cuts) the selected text and stores it to the clipboard (paste buf- fer). The clipboard is rebuilt every time REMOVE TEXT is invoked; therefore, only the most recently deleted text can be reclaimed. ^^STORE TEXT Copies the selected text to the clipboard without removing from the buffer. Use this command whenever you want to make a copy of some text without deleting it. ^^WIPE TEXT Deletes the highlighted block without copying it to the clipboard. WIPE TEXT is much faster than REMOVE TEXT because the paste buffer does not have to be rebuilt. This command is especially useful for deleting large amounts of text; use it when you have no need to get the text back. There is no limit on the size of the block that can be erased. ^^INSERT HERE Inserts text from the clipboard into the current buffer starting at the cur- rent cursor position. Note that INSERT HERE can be invoked more than once to make multiple copies of the stored text. ^^LEARN The LEARN command is used to start recording keystrokes. The recording will continue until the REMEMBER command is given. pEDIT will store all typing keys, function keys and special keys such as control keys. Note that mouse button presses are not stored. Any key can be stored in a pEDIT macro. The only restriction is that a macro containing a REPEAT command cannot itself be repeated. ^^REMEMBER Used to end the keystroke recording started by LEARN. pEDIT will ask for a key to bind to; press any of the definable keys on the keyboard. You cannot bind to the Tab, Enter or BackSpace keys. A macro must also not be bound to a key that is contained within the macro. If this happens, the macro routine will go into a loop and probably crash the system. ^^SAVE MACRO Saves the currently defined key macro to disk. Enter only a file name; pEDIT automatically adds the extension .PM1. The editor will write the macro file in the directory pointed to by the current PEDIT PATH. If a macro file of the same name already exists, you will be given the chance to overwrite it or cancel. ^^EXECUTE Executes the macro previously defined by LEARN and REMEMBER. When this command is issued, the keystrokes are 'replayed' as if you entered them. There are two forms of this command: one for a key macro, one for a disk macro. EXECUTE by itself is used for the single key macro. A command of the form "EXECUTE filename" invokes a disk macro. Here, "filename" is a valid DOS file name up to 8 characters in length without an extension. pEDIT automatically adds the file type .PM1 to all disk macro file names. ^^DO COMMAND When the "DO" key is pressed the editor will respond with the 'Command: ' prompt. At this point you can enter any valid pEDIT command. Commands can be upper- or lower-case or mixed. Note that commands must be entered in full with spaces in between words. You can exit Command Mode without doing any- thing by pressing <Enter> after the prompt. The Command line is a one-line window into the COMMAND buffer. All defined keys can be used on the command line for editing the current line. Use MOVE UP and MOVE DOWN to scroll through the stored commands. ^^RECALL Used to recall the last command given via DO COMMAND. The end result is the same as pressing the DO COMMAND key followed by the MOVE UP with one impor- tant difference; the previous command is copied to the current command line. The command can of course be edited before pressing <Enter> to begin execution. ^^DO BUTTON Permits keyboard access to the ButtonBar for those users without a mouse. This function is permanently bound to the <Shift-Esc> key and should not be issued from the command line. When this key is pressed, the first button will be selected and pEDIT will wait for your input. Use the <Left> and <Right> keys to move from button-to-button, and press <Enter> to accept or ABORT to cancel. ^^ABORT pEDIT has a user-definable ABORT key which must be defined in the initial- ization file. The actual key used depends on the configuration; ABORT is not 'hard-wired' to <Ctrl-C> because WordStar uses <Ctrl-C> as a command key. ABORT can be used to abort out of any REPEAT, FIND, FINDNEXT or REPLACE loop. You can also use it to cancel out of the DO BUTTON function, or any BUFFER, FILES or HELP screen. ^^REFRESH SCREEN This command is used to clear and repaint the screen. Use REFRESH SCREEN if, for any reason, the screen should be overwritten or otherwise obliterated. ^^DEFINE SHIFT Defines a shift or "lead-in" key for multi-key commands. pEDIT must know when to wait for a second keystroke. A shift key cannot be a command key by itself. The shift keys must be defined in your initialization file before other key definitions. Any non-typing key can be a shift key; a maximum of 4 shift keys can be defined. ^^DEFINE KEY Used to 'bind' a pEDIT command to the key of your choice. Pressing the speci- fied key is equivalent to pressing DO COMMAND and typing in the associated command. Here, 'command' refers to any valid pEDIT command entered in full (no abbreviations) with or without parameters. Keys can be defined dynamically during an editing session or, more commonly, specified in your init file. When DEFINE KEY is issued from within the editor, pEDIT will ask for a procedure name and a key press. ^^SHOW KEY Displays the command bound to a key. pEDIT will prompt for a key press and display the full command string, if there is one, bound to that key. ^^LIST KEYS Lists all defined keys and the commands bound to them. pEDIT will pause in between screens; press any key to continue to the next screen. ^^LIST ASCII Displays the complete ASCII character set used by the IBM PC. Includes the decimal value (1-255), the hexadecimal or "HEX" value (01H to FFH) and the character. Very handy for programmers. The editor will pause in between screens; press any key to continue to the next screen. ^^DRAW This function is used to draw lines and boxes on the screen. The Mode and Direction indicators on the Status Bar are replaced by the text "** DRAWING MODE **". Only a subset of the defined keys are recognized: ABORT Exit drawing mode and return to editing MOVE UP Move up one line, padding if necessary MOVE DOWN Move up one line, padding if necessary MOVE LEFT Move cursor left one column MOVE RIGHT Move right one column with padding MOVE HOME Position to start of line MOVE END Position cursor to end of line - Draw a single line/box using graphics chars = Draw a double line/box using graphics chars + Draw a line or box using standard chars ^^REPEAT Lets you repeat any key press up to 32767 times. Only the next single key press is repeated. The repeat count is shown by 'Repeat: ' on the message line. Use <BackSpace> to correct the count; set the count to zero if you wish to cancel. You can exit a REPEAT loop by pressing the ABORT key. ^^SET AUTOSAVE The autosave feature can be used to automatically save your work to disk. If autosave is active, a WRITE FILE will be performed periodically to the cur- rent buffer if changes have been made. The buffer will also be saved when a new file is loaded or you switch buffers. The usage is "SET AUTOSAVE value". A value of zero turns the autosave feature off; a value in the range 1-30 defines a save interval of 1 to 30 minutes. ^^SET COLOR Lets you choose foreground and background colors for your editing session. For monochrome and CGA displays, the only legal color combinations are Black- on-White and White-on-Black. Only the basic 16 colors are supported on EGA/VGA color displays. The usage is "SET COLOR fground bground". See the Appendix for a list of color codes. ^^SET CURSOR Lets you choose an underline or block cursor style to suit your personal needs. The usage is "SET CURSOR uline|block". ^^SET DISPLAY Used to override pEDIT's video display type detection. This command can only be used in the initialization file. Use it only if pEDIT cannot correctly identify your video type. The syntax is "SET (DISPLAY, n)" where n = 0 (text); 2 (CGA); 9 (color EGA/VGA); 10 (mono EGA/VGA). ^^SET LINES Lets you choose the number of lines of text that are shown on-screen. All displays support 25 lines; 43 line mode requires EGA or VGA, while 50 line mode (text mode only) requires VGA. Screen writing and scrolling are generally much slower in 43-and 50-line modes. This command cannot be used when the screen is split. The usage is "SET LINES 25|43|50". ^^SET MARGINS Lets you set left and right text margins; the right margin controls where text wraps. The default margins are 1 and 80. The left margin must be greater than zero and the right margin has to be greater than the left. The usage is "SET MARGINS left right". ^^SET PINDENT Used to set the paragraph indent, i.e. the number of columns by which to indent the first line of a paragraph. The usage is "SET PINDNT nn" where nn is zero or a positive integer. ^^SET SCOPE Specifies the "scope" for all FIND and REPLACE operations. If the scope is Local, only the current buffer will be searched. If however the scope is Global, all user buffers will be searched and 'Global' will show on the status line. The format of this command is "SET SCOPE local|global". Things can quickly get out of hand if some buffers are searched in a forward direction while others are searched in reverse. For this reason, the dir- ection for all buffers is temporarily set to Forward during a global search. ^^SET VIDEO Lets you switch between text and graphics mode if you have a graphics dis- play. pEDIT PLUS will start up in graphics mode if it detects a CGA/EGA/VGA display; you can override this if you prefer the speed of text mode to the graphical interface. The usage is "SET VIDEO text|graphics". ^^PRINT Provides the ability to print directly from within pEDIT PLUS. This is done by interfacing to the PRINT utility included with DOS 3.0 and greater. This function is available only in registered versions of pEDIT. Use this command to print the contents of the current buffer, print a selected portion of the current buffer, delete a file from the print queue or cancel all print jobs in the queue. The syntax is "PRINT buffer|block|delete|cancel". If the printer is off-line or out of paper, the PRINT DELETE and PRINT CANCEL commands may not complete correctly. pEDIT should resume after the problem is fixed. ^^SHOW PRINTER Displays the status of all jobs in the print queue in a special PRINTER window. pEDIT shows a maximum of 10 jobs; this is the default number of queue entries in the DOS PRINT utility. If there are more than 10 files queued - the maximum is 32 - they will not be shown. Press any key or mouse button to return to editing. ^^DOS This function 'shells' you to DOS or passes a command to DOS for execution. All text is swapped out to disk, and a second copy of the command processor is loaded to process commands. If "DOS" is given without parameters, you will be shelled to DOS and will see the DOS prompt. You may then enter DOS commands and do anything you can do at the operating system level. Type 'EXIT' to return to the editor exact- ly as you left it. If parameters are specified, the command will be passed to DOS for execution and the output will be shown in the DOS buffer. ^^HELP Provides complete on-line help for every pEDIT PLUS command. pEDIT looks for a help file named PEDIT.HLP in the directory pointed to by the PEDIT PATH. You will be presented with a HELP window containing an alpha list of all pEDIT commands. Use the arrow keys, press the first letter of the command or click the left mouse button to highlight the topic you want help with; press <Enter> or double click to select that topic. The function can be cancelled by pressing the ABORT key. ^^ALTHELP Displays the contents of the files PEDIT.BTN and PEDIT.KEY in BUTTON and KEYBOARD windows, respectively. The editor looks for these two files in the directory specified by the PEDIT PATH. Provides help for the ButtonBar and the keyboard (usually a keyboard diagram and/or a list of the keys you have defined). ^^RULER Toggles an on-screen ruler on and off. The ruler temporarily overwrites the status line at the bottom of the window. ^^QUIT Aborts an editing session. Abort MEANS abort - any changes you have made will be lost. If any User (non-system) buffers have been modified, pEDIT gives you the option of not quitting by displaying "Buffer(s) modified - quit (Y/N)? ". Enter Y to abort, N to cancel and resume editing. ^^EXIT Terminates the editing session and returns you to DOS. The current buffer is automatically written to disk if it has been modified. If any of the other user buffers have been altered, pEDIT asks you one at a time if you want to write (save) them. Answer 'Y' to save the buffer, 'N' to skip it.