| ADD | Enters text into the WORK file from the standard input device and/or from the HOLD file. | 3-6 |
| BEGIN | Used as the first expression in a BEGIN-END pair. | 4-7 |
| CHANGE | Changes existing contents of the WORK file. | 3-10 |
| Copy | Copies text from one location to another in the WORK file. | 3-14 |
| DELETE | Deletes characters and/or lines from the WORK file. | 3-17 |
| END | Terminates EDIT/3000 operation. Or, when used with a matching BEGIN command, terminates a BEGIN-END pair. | 3-20 |
| FIND | Finds a specific position or a character string in the WORK file. | 3-21 |
| GATHER | Moves portions of text from one location to another in the WORK file and renumbers the lines. (The text is deleted from its original location.) Also can be used to renumber all lines in the WORK file. | 3-23 |
| HOLD | Copies part or all of the WORK file into the HOLD file for subsequent re-copying into one or more locations of the WORK file. | 3-27 |
| INSERT | Inserts text into the WORK file from the INPUT file or from the HOLD file at a specific position. | 3-29 |
| JOIN | Copies all or part of the JOIN file to the WORK file. | 3-35 |
| KEEP | Saves all or part of the WORK file into an MPE/3000 file. | 3-39 |
| LIST | Lists all or part of the WORK file to the OUTPUT file or to any other specified file. | 3-47 |
| MODIFY | Modifies text in the WORK file using one or more subcommands (Delete, Insert, and Replace) of this command. | 3-51 |
| NOT | Reverses a flag after executing the command immediately following the NOT command. | 4-12 |
| OR | Sets the flag true, or skips the OR command and the command immediately following it if the flag already is true. | 4-16 |
| PROCEDURE | Calls and executes a procedure previously written and stored in a segmented library (SL) file. | 4-24 |
| Q | Displays a user-defined message at the terminal. | 3-54 |
| REPLACE | Replaces one or more lines in the WORK file with new text from the standard input file or from the HOLD file. | 3-55 |
| SET | Alters EDIT/3000 default operating criteria. | 3-59 |
| TEXT | Copies the contents of a TEXT file into the WORK file, deleting the current WORK file contents. | 3-67 |
| USE | Instructs EDIT/3000 to receive commands from the USE file and to send
messages to the OUTPUT file and, generally, to expect input from the INPUT
file. | 3-75 |
| VERIFY | Reports the current EDIT/3000 operating conditions declared in a SET command (or the default conditions not declared in a SET command). | 3-79 |
| WHILE | Causes EDIT/3000 to repeat commands in a pre-defined command block. | 4-2 |
| XPLAIN | Lists an explanation of all or part of the EDIT/3000 commands. | 3-81 |
| YES | Sets a flag for a WHILE command block true. | 4-20 |
| Z::= or Z:: | Assigns the value of a character string variable to Z::
and uses that value whenever Z:: appears as a part or all of a command. | |
| : | Instructs EDIT/3000 to pass the rest of the record to MPE. | 3-86 |
