Special Characters
Certain nonalpha and nonnumeric characters like * and / have special meaning within Qedit:
? Means Help, Nonprinting Characters, Alphanumeric (in Patterns) or Optional (in Regexp)
$ Means Hex, Memory Lock, List Option, Previous File or End-Of-Line (in Regexp)
^ Means Findup, Control-Char, Start-of-line (in Regexp) or Negate (in Regexp)
. Means Nonprinting, Reset, Decimal Point or Any Character (in Regexp)
! Means Shell Script or Too Long
* Means Current, Refresh, Multiply or Quantifier (in Regexp)
\ Means Previous, String, Literal Match (in Regexp) or Special Characters (in Regexp)
/ Means Prompt, Range Delimiter, Stop, Exit, or Divide
[ Means FIRST, [default] or Start Class (in Regexp)
] Means LAST or End Class (in Regexp)
{ } Are for Comments or Indentation
: Means Shell Commands or String
< Means Move, I/O Redirection or Backward Page
> Means Forward Page, I/O Redirection, Modify or Qhelp
( Means Start Parameter, Command or Subpattern (in Regexp)
) Means End Parameter, Command or Subpattern (in Regexp)
+ Means Ahead Some Lines, Add or Quantifier (in Regexp)
- Means Back Some Lines, Minus or Range (in Regexp)
~ Means Spaces (Pattern), Recent Page or Field